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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY |
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SCAUP , the wild-fowler's ordinary abridgment of SCAUP-DUCK, meaning a duck so called " because she feeds upon Scaup, i.e. broken shell-fish," as may be seen in F. Willughby
rock
spring for the purpose of reproduction, though so far as is positively known hardly but in northern districts, as Iceland, Lapland
Siberia
pochard
appearance ; but it much more generally affects salt-water, and the head of the male is black, glossed with green; hence the name of " Black-head," by which it is commonly known in North America, where, however, a second species or race, smaller than the ordinary one, is also found, the Fuligula affinis. The female scaup-duck can be readily distinguished from the dunbird or female pochard
white
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