. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Greenish blue. Road RunnerGroove-blUed Ani 385. Road-runner. Geococcyx californianus. Range.—Western United States from Oregon, Colorado and Kansas, south-ward; most abundant on the Mexican border, and wintering in central Mexico. This curious species is known as tlie CliaparralCock, Ground Cuckoo, Snake-killer, etc. Itsupper parts are a glossy greenish brown, eacii^s tea tiler being edged or fringed with whitisli; tlie tail is very long, broa
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Greenish blue. Road RunnerGroove-blUed Ani 385. Road-runner. Geococcyx californianus. Range.—Western United States from Oregon, Colorado and Kansas, south-ward; most abundant on the Mexican border, and wintering in central Mexico. This curious species is known as tlie CliaparralCock, Ground Cuckoo, Snake-killer, etc. Itsupper parts are a glossy greenish brown, eacii^s tea tiler being edged or fringed with whitisli; tlie tail is very long, broad and graduated, the feathers, being broadly tipped with white. They are notedI for their swiftness on foot, paddling over the/ ground at an astonishing rate, aided by their out-stretched wings and spread tail, which act asaeroplanes; their legs are long and have two toesfront and two back. Their food consists of lizardsand small snakes, they being particularly savagein their attacks upon the latter. They build rudenests of sticks and twigs, in low trees or bushes,and during April or May, lay from four to ten eggs, depositing them at inter-vals of several day
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