AVICULARIUM

(Lat.),n.n. ‘m). A peculiar appendage of the ectocyst in many of the Polyzoa; so cailed from its resemblance to a bird’s head. It consists e entially of a movable mandible and cup, furnished with a horny beak with which the int of the mandile is capable of being brought into apposition. It is regarded by Huxle ace pecubarivary - ified zooid having many points of affinity with the brachiopods. [L, 147.] AVICULAR I- US (Lat.), adj. (a8) - - u2 - (u*) - la (la3)ri?-u - (uts), See Avicu- LARIS. AVICULIDÆ H Bef pl AR k( wi?k) - (u)/li2d-e(a8-e2), A family of the As i pho nidi a, characterized by the shell being inequivalve, very oblique, and attached by a by us, the hinge near-