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
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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.