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Definition of Scaups
1. scaup [n] - See also: scaup
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Scaups
Literary usage of Scaups
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Broadland Sport by Nicholas Everitt (1902)
"On one occasion nine scaups were knocked down by a long shot from a parcel leading
past on the open sea, in a dead calm, and although a prolonged cripple ..."
2. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"Eastern shooters also call this bird the marsh black-head, when they distinguish
it from the other black-heads or scaups. In habits as well as in tufted ..."
3. Guide to the Systematic Use of the North American Bird and Nature Study: A by Harold Brough Shinn, Gerard Alan Abbott (1912)
"Many lesser scaups, especially the males, linger on Lake Michigan, ... The scaups
are expert divers, often descending forty feet below the surface for their ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"Unfortunately, though, the common practice of duck hunters of lumping the Greater
and Lesser scaups and the Ring-neck under the common name of 'Blue-bill,' ..."
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