Show bird outruns horse anyone who lias has traveled through western texas becomes familiar with the mesquite tree or as it sometimes grows a shrub in some places where it may grow to be thirty or forty feet high it Is commonly known as the chaparral says the american forestry magazine of washington here it Is scrubby and masses into dense clumps it being the home of that famous bird the roadrunner road runner or chaparral cock and other interesting species it is a form of big ground cuckoo that only takes to flight when hard pressed while on open ground it can run so fast that an ordinary horse cannot keep up |