mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

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AIX GAIERICULATA
Date [1875?]
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/8574782998
Author Alfred Edmund Brehm; Thomas Rymer Jones
Full title Cassell's book of birds : From the text of Dr. Brehm /
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassell%27s_book_of_birds_(Plate_XXXVII)_(8574782998).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.

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