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Show Antttulf Jliat Eat With their Gizzard. Giz-zard. The cuttie-flsh, wbicli, among other btraiige tilings, jdvv ays walks with its head dowuu an, does not chew its food at all, but masticates with, its gizzard. So do geese, fowls, ducks and indeed all modern birds. (Seizing their food in their beaks,they swallow it u ho!e,lf grain orseed, and III large pieces if it to fruit or bread. In. that condition it goes Into the giztril.a powerful muscle with a very -tough, horny lining, which arts -as a mill, belugtulllciently jowcrful tgjiulverizeunrnoked corn, l'oasiljt in the milling process all grain-ailng birds swallow little pieces- or gravel, glass, crockery, metal, etc., the horny interiorof the .gizzard being sufficiently tough to rscai-ctttlug by these materials. It is because of this fact that the otrich has acquired his reputation of enjoj Ing a ferruginous diet. San yonctico Utrontctc. |