THE UUMINA 



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day in the water. The teeth are valuable as ivory. | 

 derssen.) 



Ruminant ia. — The remaining Artiodactyles are called 

 Ruminants, from the fact thai they chew their cud. The 

 molars are provided with two double crescent-shaped f 

 V i. :;i 1 1. The stomach ( Fig. 312) is divided into at I 

 three, usually four compartments, i.e., the paunch, 



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reticulum or honeycomb, so named from the polyg 

 cells on its interior, the psalterium or manyplies, and lastly 

 the rennet or true stomach. When a slur: or any 



other Ruminant feeds, it thrusts out its long tongut - 

 abnnch of grass, and bites it off by press - the inch • 

 of the lower jaw against the toothless gum of the opp< 

 part of the upper jaw; the mouthful s - - thru swal- 

 lowed, mixed with much saliva. When its appetite is 



