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Genus .EX. 



According to the British Museum Catalogue the Mandarin Duck 

 is incUided in the Plectropterinsc, and the key is as follows; — 



No coinli on base of bill. 



Head crested .B.r. 



Both Ogilvie-Grant and E. Gates, however, pointed out to lue 

 that a far better generic character is provided in the silver-grey 

 edging to the primaries, a character by which it may be at once 

 distinguished from any other Indian duck. 



(11) ^X GALERICULATA. 

 THE MANDARIN DUCK. 



Anas galericulata, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii, p. 871. 



Aix galericulata, Gouhl, B. of Asm, vii, p. 89 ; Oat,>s, Game-B. ii, 



p. i3G ; Finn, Fancjj Water-Fowl, p. 26; Bennett, Wandeiino.'^ in Xew 



Soutli Wales, ii, p. 62; L^afhani, Sipi. iii, p. 548. 

 Mx galericulata, Salcadon, Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 7G ; Stnaii Baker, 



J. B. N. H. S. xiv, p. 626 (1903) ; id. Indian LJiick^, p. 54 (1908) ; 



Stevens, J. B. N. H. S. xxiii, p. 734 (1915). 



Description. Adult Male.— Supercilium from the base of the bill to the 

 end of the crest pure white ; forehead to nape glossy-green, thence the long 

 thick crest is metallic-purple, more or less mixed with green on the basal 

 half and entirely green on the terminal third, which is sometimes shot with 

 deep-blue ; face and sides of the head buff, shading into white round the eye 

 and into ciunamon-red on the posterior cheeks, chin and throat ; the neck- 

 hackles are bright-chestnut, tipped with purple and with white stria> on the 

 anterior portion ; remainder of upper plumage and lesser wing-coverts dull- 

 brown glossed with bronzed-green, especially on the mantle and upper tail- 

 coverts ; tail grey-brown glossed green. Lower neck and sides of breast 

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