Digestion a thin-walled expanded portion of the alimentary tract used for the storage of food prior to digestion. In some birds it is an expanded, muscular pouch near the gullet or throat. In adult doves and pigeons, the crop can produce crop milk to feed newly hatched birds. Certain insects may have a crop or enlarged esophagus. Herbivores have evolved cecums (or an abomasum in the case of ruminants). Ruminants have a fore-stomach with four chambers. These are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. In the first two chambers, the rumen and the reticulum, the food is mixed with saliva and
The Battle of the Birds The silver pigeon ate them, and the golden pigeon taxed him with what the giant's daughter had done for the prince. At that the prince knew her, and married her a second time. The Battle of the Birds The Battle of the Birds is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in his "Popular Tales of the West Highlands". He recorded it from a fisherman near Inverary, John Mackenzie. Joseph Jacobs took it from there for his "Celtic Fairy Tales" and added some additional elements. Also included in "The Lilac Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang and "A Book