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muscles which break 

 This is greatly aided 

 swallow. 



326. Herbivorous 

 usually be eaten in 

 needed nutrients. In 

 is not only of a great 

 chambered stomach, 



up the food eaten by the fowls, 

 by the sharp gravel which fowls 



Animals: Vegetable food must 

 greater quantity to furnish the 

 herbivorous animals the intestine 

 length, but often has a large and 

 furnishing a large laboratory 



Fig. 159. Stomachs of some domestic animals. I, Crop and gizzard of fowl. A, 

 oesophagus; B, glandular stomach; C, gizzard. II. Interior of horse 

 stomach showing the two kinds of lining. A, left sac with tough white 

 lining; B, right sac with soft red lining where the digestive juices are 

 secreted; E, duodenum. III. Stomach of ox as seen from right upper race 

 (Chauveau), and IV, Stomach of sheep with second, third and fourth 

 divisions open. A, oesophagus; B' right portion, and B" left portion of 

 rumen of first stomach; C, reticulum; D, omasum; E, abomasum, or true 

 stomach; F, duodenum. 



