Printed on the plate
“Mandarin Duck”
Aix galericulata
Engraved caption: AIX GALERICULATA.
Modern identification
Aix galericulata
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl · Anatidae
Why
Linnaeus's Anas galericulata = Mandarin Duck; same name today.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)
Who made the plate
J. Wolf and H. C. Richter, del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.
- Joseph Wolf drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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