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mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
Subject: mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
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Brooklyn Museum - Pair of Mandarin Ducks - Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando).jpg
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mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)


Artist Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) (1797–1858)  
Title Pair of Mandarin Ducks
Date between 1838 and 1842
Medium Woodblock print
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Pair_of_Mandarin_Ducks_-_Utagawa_Hiroshige_(Ando).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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