chaparral cock

British  

noun

1. another name for roadrunner

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Example Sentences

This was the home of the crow, but there were other feathered people there, and the chaparral cock.

From Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Judson, Katharine Berry

"The chaparral cock, who sat on the horn of the deer, and the crow who sat on its backbone."

From Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Judson, Katharine Berry

A very singular and yet a very little known bird is the roadrunner chaparral cock, or, as it is known in Mexico and the Spanish sections of the United States, the paisano.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various

A chaparral cock strutted from its decapitated enemy, a rattlesnake, and disappeared in the chaparral.

From Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up by Mulford, Clarence Edward

Olla or water jar decorated with figures of deer, growing plants, and the gentile quail of chaparral cock.

From Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594 by Stevenson, James