. The Bible and science. , and then proceeds to bring upthe grass again from the paunch in small quantitiesat a time. To enable the animal to do this, the grass. IlCr. lis. —Stomach of an aiitplcpe. A, from in front; /i, opened from behitjilrr oesophagus ; I, paunch or rumen ; H, reticulum ; ///, .iber or psalteriuni11, abomasum ; j), pjlorus; s, oesophageal groove. or food is not thrown up directly from the paunch butis passed into a second small stomach, the reticulum,so called from the net-like folds of its mucous mem-brane. In this stomach the food is made up intosmall pellets, and then fo
. The Bible and science. , and then proceeds to bring upthe grass again from the paunch in small quantitiesat a time. To enable the animal to do this, the grass. IlCr. lis. —Stomach of an aiitplcpe. A, from in front; /i, opened from behitjilrr oesophagus ; I, paunch or rumen ; H, reticulum ; ///, .iber or psalteriuni11, abomasum ; j), pjlorus; s, oesophageal groove. or food is not thrown up directly from the paunch butis passed into a second small stomach, the reticulum,so called from the net-like folds of its mucous mem-brane. In this stomach the food is made up intosmall pellets, and then forced upwards into the mouth;there it is thoroughly chewed and swallowed a second HORNS OF RUMINANTS. 227 time. It now passes, neither into the paunch nor re-ticuhim, but into the third stomach, liber (j^salterium)01- manyplies, so called from the numerous folds,rudely resembling the leaves of a book, into whichthe mucous membrane lining its interior is it passes into the fourth or true stomach, where
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