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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 305 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCAUP , the See also:

wild-See also:fowler's See also:ordinary abridgment of SCAUP-See also:DUCK, meaning a duck so called " because she feeds upon Scaup, i.e. broken See also:shell-See also:fish," as may be seen in F. See also:Willughby's See also:Ornithology (p. 365); but it would be more proper to say that the name comes from the " See also:mussel-scaups," or " mussel-scalps," the beds of See also:rock or See also:sand on which mussels are aggregated. It is the Anas See also:manila of See also:Linnaeus and Fuligula manila of See also:modern systematic writers, a very abundant See also:bird around the coasts of most parts of the See also:northern hemisphere, repairing inland in See also:spring for the purpose of See also:reproduction, though so far as is positively known hardly but in northern districts, as See also:Iceland, See also:Lapland, See also:Siberia and the See also:fur-countries of See also:America. The scaup-duck has consider-able likeness to the See also:pochard (q.v.), both in habits and See also:appearance; but it much more generally affects See also:salt-See also:water, and the See also:head of the male is See also:black, glossed with See also:green; hence the name of " Black-head," by which it is commonly known in See also:North America, where, however, a second See also:species or See also:race, smaller than the ordinary one, is also found, the Fuligula affinis. The See also:female scaup-duck can be readily distinguished from the dunbird or female pochard by her broad See also:white See also:face. (A.

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