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Definition of Sawbills
1. sawbill [n] - See also: sawbill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sawbills
Literary usage of Sawbills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1858)
"... The sawbills. The sawbills or motmots have by most authors "been placed as a
sub-family with the Cora- ..."
2. The Game Birds of California by Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer (1918)
"The American Merganser, about the size of the Mallard, is the largest of the fish
ducks or sawbills. It can be distinguished from the Red-breasted Merganser ..."
3. The Game Birds of California by Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer (1918)
"The American Merganser, about the size of the Mallard, is the largest of the fish
ducks or sawbills. It can be distinguished from the Red-breasted Merganser ..."
4. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"... or sawbills, are fish-eating Ducks. They pursue and capture their prey under
water, progressing by aid of the feet alone, and their serrate bills seem ..."
5. Men, Women & Manners in Colonial Times by Sydney George Fisher (1897)
"A great variety of ducks, white divers, and sawbills with scarlet heads swam
about in the water with the young broods they had raised on the shore. ..."
6. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"... be the hornbills and bee- eaters of the Old World, and the sawbills and todies
of the New. One would gain an imperfect or erroneous idea of the ..."
7. Men, Women & Manners in Colonial Times by Sydney George Fisher (1898)
"A great variety of ducks, white divers, and sawbills with scarlet heads swam
about in the water with the young broods they had raised on the shore. ..."
8. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1901)
"... (Motmots or sawbills), the middle and outer toes are perfectly coherent for
a great distance, constituting the ..."
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