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VIII.—Skull of the Common Fowl (Gallus domesticus). THE skull of birds is remarkable for the great amount of anchylosis which takes place between its various constituents long before the period of adult life. So complete is this union, that the determination of the separate bones in a full-grown bird is a perfectly hopeless task, without first studying their relation at a period when they retain their original distinctness. It will therefore be convenient to describe the fowl's skull, in the first instance, at the period of hatching, when the chief ossific centres are still separate, although most of the distinctive characters of the adult arc already assumed.
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Report of Prof. Parker's Hunterian Lectures “On the Structure and Development of the Vertebrate Skull”. Nature 11, 9–11 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/011009a0
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