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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. 

 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 face (Chauveau), 

 and IV, Stomach of sheep with second, third and fourth divisions open. 

 A, oesophagus; B' Rumen, or first division of stomach; C, reticulum; D, 

 omasum; E, abomasum, or true stomach; F, duodenum. 



