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mandarin duck

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mandarin duck

Kind of duck, genus Aix galericulata, 40 cm/16 in long. The drake's head has a long, erectile crest, green, purple and chestnut in colour, and one of the wing-feathers is expanded to form an orange ‘sail’.
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Through them the symbols of the mandarin duck and drake, the one-winged birds, the tree whose boughs are interwoven, are revealed.
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