Birds Illustrated By Color Photograph [january, 1897]
Birds Illustrated By Color Photograph [january, 1897]
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This handsome plumagethe male loses during four months of the year, from May to August, whenhe throws off his fine crest, his wing-fans, and all his brilliantcolors, assuming the sober tinted dress of his mate. The Summer Duck ofAmerica bears a close resemblance to the Mandarin Duck, both in plumageand manners, and at certain times of the year is hardly to bedistinguished from that bird. The foreign duck has been successfully reared in Zoological Gardens, some being hatched under the parent bir...d and others under a domestichen, the latter hatching the eggs three days in advance of the former. "The Chinese, " says Dr. Bennett, "highly esteem the Mandarin Duck, whichexhibits, as they think, a most striking example of conjugal attachmentand fidelity. A pair of them are frequently placed in a gaily decoratedcage and carried in their marriage processions, to be presented to thebride and groom as worthy objects of emulation. " "I could more easily, " wrote a friend of Dr. Bennett's in China to whomhe had expressed his desire for a pair of these birds, "send you twolive Mandarins than a pair of Mandarin Ducks.
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