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Generally considered cranially vacant even for a bird, the turkey wasn’t always such a buffoon. 

From Forbes • Nov. 26, 2014

The two most celebrated of these epistolary romances involved Mrs. Pat Campbell and Ellen Terry, but the headiest, cranially speaking, has only just come to light.

From Time Magazine Archive

Specimens of T. b. aureus showing the greatest amount of geographic variation cranially are from the ecotone between the Piñon-juniper and Douglas Fir zones at the edge of the range of the subspecies.

From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Youngman, Phillip M.

Externally, toltecus differs from aztecus in being smaller and darker; cranially, toltecus also is the smaller and the P2 and M2 are more angular lingually than in aztecus, in which the teeth are rounded.

From The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico by Alvarez, Ticul

Comparisons.—Smaller externally and cranially than S. v. longicauda and brown instead of blackish or grayish in winter pelage.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.