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Bird in addition reveals chest part (7)

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I believe the answer is:

sternum

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'chest part' is the definition.
('sternum' is part of 'chest')

'bird in addition' is the wordplay.
'bird' becomes 'ern' (ern is a kind of bird).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'addition' becomes 'stum' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ern' inserted inside 'stum' is 'STERNUM'.

'reveals' is the link.

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(Other definitions for sternum that I've seen before include "Chest bone" , "Munster (anag.)" , "Breastbone" , "front of breast" , "somewhere in chest" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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