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LOWta MANDIBLE 

 TONGUE 



OPENING TO TRACHEA 



MUSCLES CONTROLLING 

 TONGUE 



OPENING INTOGULLET 



GLANDULAR 

 STOMACH 



GALL-BLAODEB. 

 BILE DUCT 



PANCREAS 

 DUODENAL LOOP 



Fig. 108. — The Digestive System of the Fowl 



Tlie digestive system of the fowl differs in several respects from those of the 

 larger farm animals. (From Lippinoott, Poultry Production.) 



but both are excreted thru a common chamber, the cloaca. Most of 

 the water in the urine is reabsorbed in the cloaca, and the urine is 

 voided as a whitish paste with the feces. The nitrogenous waste is 

 excreted chiefly in the form of uric acid, instead of as urea, as with 

 mammals. 



Nowhere in the digestive tract of poultry does much digestion of 



