mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

Query: birds of asia

Result: 317^th of 1792

Subject:	mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
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Cassell's book of birds (1875) (14747421994).jpg

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mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

Title: Cassell's book of birds
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Alfred Edmund Brehm, 1829-1884 Thomas Rymer Jones, 1810-1880
Subjects: Birds
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassell%27s_book_of_birds_(1875)_(14747421994).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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