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Bone from bird included in total (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sternum

'bone' is the definition.
(sternum is a kind of bone)

'bird included in total' is the wordplay.
'bird' becomes 'tern' (tern is a kind of bird**).
'included in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'total' becomes 'sum' ('sum' can be a synonym of 'total').
'tern' placed inside 'sum' is 'STERNUM'.

'from' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for sternum that I've seen before include "front of breast" , "Chest bone" , "Human bone -- ten rums (anag)" , "somewhere in chest" , "big bone" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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