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MANDARIN DUCK. 
Male, with the crown and occipital crest green; a broad white 
band over the eye; tertiaries expanded at the tip, and prominent. 
Fem., with two white bars on the wing. 
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Male: head with a long occipital crest and crown purplish — 
green ; above the eye a broad band of white; throat, cheeks, and 
remainder of the neck bright reddish ferruginous, the shaft of each 
feather lighter; breast bright purple; back, tail, and wings hair- 
brown; scauplars with the outer webs black, the inner ones white ; 
one tertiary prolonged and expanded on each side, prominent over 
the back; on the lower part of the breast’a broad band of black, not — 
meeting in front, on which there are one or two narrow ones of white ; 
flanks ferruginous, beautifully undulated with narrow bands of black ; 
belly, vent, and under tail coverts white ; bill and legs orange. 
Fem.: similar to the summer duck A. sponsa, but may be dis- 
tinguished from it (according to Latham) by having two bars of 
white on the wing, and by the white spots on the breast being 
round instead of triangular. 
Aix GalerviCUlata .ecceceseseerecere Boie. 
Anas GalericUulata ..eccccecseeee. Linn. Syst. 1. 206. 
Gmel. Syst. 1. 539. 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 871. 
Querquedula sinensis ...eeseeeee Briss. Orn. 6. 450. 
Chinese TCG... drasasivesscees ode Edw. Glea. pl. 102. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 548. 
Sarcelle de la Chine .......c000e Buff. Ois. 9. 276. 
Inhabits China and Japan, where it is kept (as in this country) 
for the sake of its beauty, in a state of domestication. Nothing is 
known of its habits in a wild state. 
AIX SPONSA. 
Ai«z Mas.—Capite colloque viridibus; gutture albo. 
Aiz Fem.—Brunnea, rostro cinguloque occulari etiam ad basin 
rostri, et fascia alis albis. 
