mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

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Subject:	mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
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Title Two paintings of ducks
Description
Japanese paintings of male and female Mandarin Ducks (Aix galericulata).
Iconographic Collections
Keywords: Japan; Ducks
Gallery: http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0046795.html
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_paintings_of_ducks_Wellcome_V0046795.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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