M.
IS A MANDARIN-BEAVER.
Even in plain clothes should score two games if seen in England. There is no ruling as to the points to be scored if observed in this country in full plumage.
This specimen is often wrongly catalogued in books of reference as a Mandarin-King-Beaver. Royalty or Kinghood is impossible for a species which supports a very notable gap between its central adornment and the maxillary-fringes.
The specimen mounted is, so to say, traditional, that is, it is a transcript of an early-nineteenth century Chinese brush-drawing on silk in Chinese ink representing a hero, or as we should say, a Beaver.