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mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina / opera et studio Georgii Shaw ... ; adduntur figuræ, eleganter sculptæ et coloratæ.
Date 1792
Source http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/pageimage/29568472
Author Sydenham Edwards; Philip Reinagle; Charles Reuben Ryley; George Shaw; William Skelton; Sarah Stone.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musei_Leveriani_explicatio,_anglica_et_latina_BHL29568472.jpg
The mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) is a perching duck species found in East Asia. Aix is an Ancient Greek word used by Aristotle to refer to an unknown diving bird, and galericulata is the Latin for a wig, derived from galerum, a cap or bonnet. |
