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 THE MANDARIN DUCK. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill broad and flattened} the edges marked with fliarp lamelbf. 

 Tongue broad and ciliated at the edges. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Duck with variegated creft, and eredt compreflTed interior remiges. 



Chinefe Teal. 



Edwards, pi. \oi. 



Chinefe Duck. 



Lath. Syti. 3. f. 548. 



NATURE in the major part of the feathered tribe feems to have lavifhed 

 all her ornaments on the male -, while the female, on the contrary, is 

 often deftitute of any peculiar brilliancy of plumage, and of an appearance al- 

 together different from that of the oppofite fex. This is no where more con- 

 fpicuous than in the birds of the duck tribe j and the prefent fpecies in particular 

 is a moft remarkable inftance of this diverfity of afpecflj for while the male 

 is diftinguiflied by the beautiful colours exhibited in the annexed plate, the 

 female is merely of a dull brown, varied with undulations of a deeper caft, and 

 having but a flight approach towards the rich green which fhiiies on the wings 

 of the male. 



This 



