road-runner

Then the road-runner leisurely proceeds to devour the suicide.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

Another animal frequently seen was the chaparral-cock or road-runner, really the earth cuckoo (_Geococcyx Mexicanus_), called paisano or pheasant, or

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

One summer there came a road-runner up from the lower valley, peeking and prying, and he never had any patience with the water baths of the sparrows.

The California Birthday Book Various

For downright strategy no creature inhabiting the desert surpasses the road-runner, sometimes called the ground-cuckoo or snake-killer.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

Kingfisher perched on limbs overhanging the quiet pools, ready to drop at the faintest movement on the opaque water; the road-runner chased the festive lizard on the desert land back of the willows.

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

Occasionally a lazy jack-rabbit ambled out of his road-side covert and watched them from a safe distance; now and then a spotted road-runner raced along the dusty ruts ahead of them.

Heart of the Sunset Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

One summer there came a road-runner up from the lower valley, peeking and prying, and he had never any patience with the water baths of the sparrows.

The Land of Little Rain 1903

One summer there came a road-runner up from the lower valley, peeking and prying, and he had never any patience with the water baths of the sparrows.

The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901

These two-eyed, one-mouthed circles on heads fast to body-boxes, from which waved tentacle limbs, jigged by us, to give place to other coiled or crawling serpents and their companion carvings, with the track of the swift road-runner skipping by us everywhere.

Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

Over and over and over -- the human hand, the track of the little road-runner bird, the plumed serpent coiled or in waving line, the human form with the square body and round head, with staring circles for eyes and mouth, and straight-line limbs.

Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899