The red grouse, gorcock, or moor-cock, weighs about nineteen ounces, and the female somewhat less.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

High as such places are, on one of them a young gorcock was stricken down by a hawk close to our feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference

The gorcock unalarmed crows among the moors and mosses -- the blackbird whistles in the birken shaw -- and the cony erects his ears at the mouth of his burrow, and whisks away frolicsome among the whins or heather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference