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They are a freak breed born practically without tail feathers, thus look rumpless when viewed in profile.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the top of the heap are "social X rays," rumpless women of a certain age who believe one cannot be too rich or too thin.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Isle of Man, famed for rumpless chickens, tailless cats and interned British Fascists, had trouble with its Fascists last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

In three rumpless fowls the caudal vertebrae were few in number, and anchylosed together into a misformed mass.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles

The skull of a crested, rumpless, white Turkish fowl was very slightly protuberant, and but little perforated; the ascending branches of the premaxillary were well developed.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles