snow-cock

plural snow-cocks

1. alternativeAlternative form of snowcock.

   A party which ascended the highest peak (Seetaram, 15,000 feet) a week ago, came across a brood of Snow-Cock, and captured all the chicks (nine I think), but later released them.

   1880 June 29 (date written), Lieutenant Fairbrother, “The Game Birds of India. (Reprint from the ‘Asian.’) Addenda et Corrigenda. No. 2.”, in Allan [Octavian] Hume, editor, Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and Its Dependencies, volume IX, numbers 1–3, Calcutta, West Bengal: A. Acton, at the Calcutta Central Press, […], published August 1880, →OCLC, page 207

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   Another species of Snow-cock occasionally obtained by Indian sportsmen is Tetraogallus tibetanus, Gould, figured in the Birds of Asia, pt. V., pl. 4; but as it has not, I believe, been procured on this side of the Snowy range, I shall only briefly describe it without giving it a place among the Birds of India.

   1864, T[homas] C[averhill] Jerdon, “Ord[er] Rasores”, in The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds Known to Inhabit Continental India; […], volume III, Calcutta, West Bengal: George Wyman and Co., […], →OCLC, page 554