Abstract
The Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) is a diurnal ground-dwelling cuckoo, which is a permanent resident in the arid and semiarid regions of southwestern North America. Some features of its physiology are known (Calder and Bentley 1967; Calder and Schmidt-Nielsen 1967; Calder and Schmidt-Nielsen 1968; Calder 1968). However, the presence of a salt-secreting nasal gland (Ohmart 1972) and studies on the efficiency in body water turnover in birds under simulated desert conditions (Ohmart et al. 1970) indicated that detailed field information was needed to inte-
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