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Is there any authority for the use of furculum for the os furculatorium of birds? I am told by a contributor to the Proceedings of this Society, whose phraseology I have ventured to interfere with, that “furculum” has been employed by Balfour, Huxley, and Rolleston. Such may be the case, but it is possible that even these great anatomical writers may have erred in the use of a Latin termination. No dictionary that I have been able to refer to contains the word “furculum.”
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SCLATER, P. “Furculum” or “Furcula”. Nature 32, 466 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032466d0
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