. Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina . eculum, coeruleo-viridi fulgens lucidiffimum,a parte poftica fafcia alba et tranfverfa terminatur. Corporis latera pennarumferie fulco-pallentium, lunulis aibis nigriiipe alternatim diftin<5tarum, ornantur :habent tamen nonnulla fpecimina lineas tenues fufcas denfe difpofitas lunularumvice. Super humeros utrinque lunute aliquot akius imprelTae. Quod autem in avi prxcipue mirandum, remiges duo interiores fecundariifeu dorfo utrinque proximi, ceteris longe latiores, furgunt lateribus in longitu-dinem ereftis, quafi carbafis duobus fimiles. Col
. Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina . eculum, coeruleo-viridi fulgens lucidiffimum,a parte poftica fafcia alba et tranfverfa terminatur. Corporis latera pennarumferie fulco-pallentium, lunulis aibis nigriiipe alternatim diftin<5tarum, ornantur :habent tamen nonnulla fpecimina lineas tenues fufcas denfe difpofitas lunularumvice. Super humeros utrinque lunute aliquot akius imprelTae. Quod autem in avi prxcipue mirandum, remiges duo interiores fecundariifeu dorfo utrinque proximi, ceteris longe latiores, furgunt lateribus in longitu-dinem ereftis, quafi carbafis duobus fimiles. Colore funt vivide ferrugineo,parte antica albo, poftica nigro leviter cinfta. Penns lis praster folitum ve-nufts, quas cum primo videris, adeo fitas putares ut perpetuo periclitarentur,nee per unius hor^ fpatium manerent incolumes et intemeratse, rariffime tur^bantur et horrefcunt. Roftrum rubet. Crura pedefque aurantia. In Angliam interdum cum femina illata eft formofilTima hcec avis; dubitotamen an unquam noftro fub ccelo foetus protulerint. THE. AKAS G,-ilL;BRJCBIjATA. T inB MCAKDARIEf UTTCK. 2u6/j^/tftl y^rtV ^./JMH, /I/.L2\itAnutitXnf>-ittii -A//^^/jitt. ( 50THE MANDARIN DUCK. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill broad and flattened} the edges marked with fliarp 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 lavifhedall her ornaments on the male -, while the female, on the contrary, isoften 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 particularis a moft remarkable inftance of this diverfity of afpecflj for while the maleis diftinguiflied by the beautiful colours exhibited in the annexed pl
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