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THE ROAD RUNNER _ 
(Continued from page 154) 
be found, meet with it from time to 
time, I should be glad to receive any 
special notes made upon it, mailed in 
the care of FOREST AND STREAM. 
Many years ago I published, from 
time to time, accounts of this interest- 
ing bird, one or two of them appearing 
in this country, while others were con- 
tributed to the Journal of Anatomy of 
Edinburgh, the Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society of London, the Ibis, 
the special organ of the British Orni- 
thologists Union, and elsewhere. The 
Ibis paper was illustrated with a 
colored head I had made of an adult 
bird, and this Professor Ridgway 
claimed was the most accurate one that 
had up to that time appeared. I was 
the first, in that article, to give an ac- 
count of the naked skin-tracts of the 
adult bird in life and their coloration. 
In the other publications named I gave 
full accounts of the skeleton and mus- 
cular system of this species, with ap- 
propriate figures. Since that time 
Geococcyx has received but scant at- 
tention at my hands, so the present 
brief account has been very much in 
the nature of meeting an old friend— 
one for which I have always had an 
admiration. ° 
The illustration to this article is 
from my photograph of a mounted 
Road-runner from Central America, in 
one of the cases of the Bird Division 
of the United States National Museum, 
and for this courtesy we are indebted 
to the Chief of Exhibits, Dr. James E. 
Benedict. It gives an excellent idea 
of the bird, which has been named by 
Lesson Geococcyx californianus, or the 
Ground Cuckoo of California. The 
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while as a matter of fact, beyond hav- 
ing two toes in front and two behind 
on either foot, it is not very much of 
a true cuckoo in its habits and its 
anatomy. 
TRAPPING THE 
COYOTE 
(Continued from page 139) 
ground of cattle, or sheep, or a spring 
of running water, which to the trap- 
pers knowledge does not freeze easily. 
The set must be made in the open, 
unless a trail set is to be made, and 
that should be used only where the 
game to be trapped uses, as it is a 
very particular job to fool a coyote 
into stepping into your trap, and deer, 
rats and squirrels will bother the set 
so much that it has never proved a 
practical one to me. 
You cannot force a coyote, not even 
a young one, into a trap by building 
It will identify you. 
a pen or wing as you do for skunks 
or cats, so the best place is out in the 
open, with perhaps the exception of 
a tree such as a juniper or pine with 
overhanging branches allowing lots of 
protected space underneath which is 
large enough for a man to stand and 
move about in. This position will 
often give the trapper a set in freez- 
ing or snowy weather that is other- 
wise unavailable, and with a little care 
he can fix it so that he can depend 
upon it in most any weather. 
The short bits of needles and dust 
under the tree are ideal to cover the 
trap to withstand freezing, and the 
tree will keep off the snow enough so 
your trap will work without continu- 
ous resetting, which is objectionable, 
not only from the standpoint of work, 
but the disturbance and man scent left 
will keep coyotes away for the first 
night or two. 
There is a general way to cover a 
trap which will answer for most sets, 
except the water set. The dirt should 
be removed to allow the trap to be on 
a level with the surrounding ground 
surface when covered, and the earth 
removed should be scattered, if it can 
be done without causing a mussed ap- 
pearance. With sod, it must be re 
moved entirely. Bed the trap firmly, 
if the ground is not muddy, and place 
about four small rocks or chips under 
the jaws to keep them from freezing 
down and prevent tipping over should 
the coyote step on the jaws and not far 
enough over to hit the pan. Now it is 
ready to cover, and two points must 
be closely observed in the covering. 
First, see that the pan has nothing 
under it to pevent its going down. If 
a jack rabbit or a bird is being used 
for bait, or the set is made at the 
carcass of a dead animal, pluck tufts 
of fur, feathers, or hair, from the bait 
and lay on the edge of the pan all 
around. This covering will fluff up 
soft, will not freeze, and can be 
covered with dust or broken leaves or 
needles and will stay in place and not 
be objectionable if the wind blows 
some of the top covering off. 
a pan should be pressed down 
just as far as possible without 
springing, allowing the covering to be 
more easily accomplished, and making 
the set more dependable. If this is 
not done, with some makes of traps, 
the pressure of the spring is so great 
on the latch that if the slightest freeze 
comes, or a little rust forms on the 
end of the latch, it may support the 
weight of a coyote without springing. 
Other coverings for the pan are 
leaves, grass, or even dirt if one is 
not trapping in varying conditions of 
weather, and in some cases paper over 
the pan and under the jaws is prac- 
tical, but I find it liable to yield and 
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