. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. A ; AT A 292 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS V. Pouter PigeonsAll pigeons keep their food for a long timein a sack within their breast. Their organsof digestion are so made as to complete the. The Dwarf Pouter Pigeon of Amsterdam work their feeble beaks have left all have, more or less, a frontal protuber-ance formed by two lateral appendices to theesophagus. In addition they have an upperstomach fastened to the esophagus, whichreceives the food, softens, and liquefies it;thence it passes i
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. A ; AT A 292 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS V. Pouter PigeonsAll pigeons keep their food for a long timein a sack within their breast. Their organsof digestion are so made as to complete the. The Dwarf Pouter Pigeon of Amsterdam work their feeble beaks have left all have, more or less, a frontal protuber-ance formed by two lateral appendices to theesophagus. In addition they have an upperstomach fastened to the esophagus, whichreceives the food, softens, and liquefies it;thence it passes into the masticating internal arrangements protrude thebreast, and those species which swell theirchests until their heads are thrown back andnothing is seen in front but these unnaturalprotuberances are called, in English, pouterpigeons, from the sulky, pouting air this atti-tude conveys. They may be regarded as theproduct of artificial breeding much practicedin central Europe, although American breed-ers have given to these birds so monstrous ashape that the English pouter is an alienamong the foreign birds of his own he is sometimes sold ior hisweight in gold. The English bird is long and lank in the legs, and is distinguished more bythe s
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