DCHP-1 Online
heath cock 
a grouse, Tympanuchus cupido americanus, common on the southern prairies.
See also: prairie chicken (def. 1)
- 1749 There are Abundance of . . . wild Fowl, Heath-Cocks and Hens, likewise Partridges, and Turkeys, and Sea Fowl in great Plenty.
- 1823 This species is an inhabitant of woody countries only, in which it differs from the Pinnated grouse of America ... better known to the Sportsmen of the New World under the appellation of the Prairie hen and Heath hen.
- 1749 There are Abundance of . . . wild Fowl, Heath-Cocks and Hens, likewise Partridges, and Turkeys, and Sea Fowl in great Plenty.