urogaster (urogaster)

[ urogenital (ū-rō-jen'i-tal), a. and n. [ II. n. A urogenital organ. urogenous (u-roj'e-nus), a. [ II. n. In ornith., the tail-piece of the composite hyoid bone; the median azygous backward-projecting element of that bone, borne upon the basihyal; the bas i branchial element, or base of the first branchial arch. Urolestes (u-rō-les'tēz), n. [NL. (Cabanis, 1850), IMG:content-1633.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1634.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1635.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1636.png:[graphic] Urolestes melanoleucus. of the family Laniidæ, related to the fiscal shrikes. All the feathers of the head and neck are lanceolate, and the tail is long and much graduated, with the median rectrices long-exserted and more than twice as long as the wing. U. melanoleucus of southern and east IMG:content-1637.png:[blocks in formation]