mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) Author C. G. Finch-Davies (1875–1920) / Claude Gibney Finch-Davies
Description
English: Aix galericulata or Mandarin Duck
Date 17 August 1919
Source/Photographer "The Bird Paintings of CG Finch-Davies" - Transvaal Museum (1984)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aix_galericulata00.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.
