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BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
Range. Resident, mainly in Lower Sonoran and lower part of Upper Sonoran 
Zones in California, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, and western and middle Texas south 
through Lower California and tableland of Mexico to Puebla. 
From Handbook of Birds 
of the Western United States 
Fig. 49. Road-runner at Attention 
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State Records.— The lower parts of southern New Mexico and the river valleys 
east of the Rio Grande constitute the principal resident range of the Road-runner in 
the State. It is probably most common in the lower Pecos near Carlsbad, but it is a 
fairly common breeding bird across the State in all the valleys below 5,000 feet. It 
ranges north to Montoya (Bailey); Clapham, October 29, and November 1 1883 
and Perico, December 19, 1893 (Seton); in Union County was common November 
5, 1915; in Colfax County was seen in the foothills, August 17, 1913, and reported 
tom the base of Tinaja Peak (Kalmbach); follows up the Pecos to 7,500 feet at 
Glorieta (Nelson); up the valley of the Canadian to about the same altitude at Halls 
I eak (Barber); up the Rio Grande to the vicinity of Santa Fe (Bailey);(quite common 
in northern Santa Fe County (Jensen, 1922)]; up the valley of the Gila to Gila 
(Goldman); and up the San Francisco River to Frisco, 6,200 feet (Bailey). [It 
ranges as high as 7,000 feet at the V+T Ranch on the East Gila River, and north to 
ragon, in the western part; is also very common along the Rio Grande below Ele- 
p lant Butte (Ligon, 1916).] In the mountains between the Gila and the Rio Grande 
it occurs north to Silver City and on the east slope of the Mogollons to 7,500 feet at 
Glilonde (Biinn). [One was seen, the latter part of November, 1917, near White- 
W t n’ ‘’TV 2 mileS 80Utheast of ^ approximately 9,500 feet 
i;.',' , E 6S8 were taken at Silver City, April 8, about April 22 and on 
lay 13,1885, under such conditions as to make it probable that all three sets of eggs 
were laid by the same bird (Marsh). [On May 10, 1920, a nest with five eggs at 
ifferent stages of incubation was found 10 miles south of Silver City at 5,800 feet. 
? s ^ ° 10, 1920 ’ 14 was observed from Silver City to the Mexican line. On May 
)16 ’ a " est near Fa,r Vjew was half completed. Between Magdalena and 
fcocorro, five were seen, August 28, 1917 (Ligon).] 
