mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) Plum Branch and Mandarin Ducks by Shibata Zeshin, c. 1870s, lacquer on paper, Honolulu Museum of Art, accession 4649.1
Date circa 1870s
Author Shibata Zeshin (1807–1891)  
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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.
