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Uropygial   Listen
adjective
Uropygial  adj.  (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the uropygium, or prominence at the base of the tail feathers, in birds.
Uropygial gland, a peculiar sebaceous gland at the base of the tail feathers in most birds. It secretes an oily fluid which is spread over the feathers by preening.






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... habits, but in the form of the beak and of the skull; in the proportions of the beak to the skull; in the number of tail-feathers; in the absolute and relative size of the feet; in the presence or absence of the uropygial gland; in the number of vertebrae in the back; in short, in precisely those characters in which the genera and species of birds differ ...
— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley



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