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Definition of Chaparral cock
1. Noun. Speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas.
Generic synonyms: Cuckoo
Group relationships: Genus Geococcyx, Geococcyx
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaparral Cock
Literary usage of Chaparral cock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philip of Texas: A Story of Sheep Raising in Texas by James Otis (1913)
"... boundaries in American measurements, but in all our relations with the Mexicans
it was necessary to know of what we were speaking. THE chaparral cock ..."
2. Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1895)
"THE ROAD-RUNNER BY GEORGE M. KELLOGG PROMINENT among the quaint productions of
the Sierra country is the Road-Runner, often called the " chaparral cock," ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"I am also almost ready to add to my list the Road-runner or chaparral cock (Geococcyx
californiens). Additional evidence of its having been 4l seen" is ..."
4. The Story of Arizona by William Henry Robinson (1919)
"The most unique bird in Arizona is the chaparral cock, or road runner. ...
Even more than for his running the chaparral cock is noted for his fighting ..."
5. Summerland Sketches: Or Rambles in the Backwoods of Mexico and Central America by Felix Leopold Oswald (1880)
"The chaparral-cock ... who bags his first chaparral- cock may sacrifice it
to .^Esculapius: he can be sure of having escaped from the malady of civilization ..."
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