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of different kinds. The King Penguin of the Antarctic Ocean— 
Kerguelen, the Falkland Islands, &c.—still exists in enormous 
numbers, passing the greater part of its time in the water, 
where it swims by means of its wings only, its feet serving but as 
rudders. On land it stands and walks in an upright position 
(fig. 22). 

The Great Auk ica impennis). 
A curious and much smaller Bird, called the Puftin (Fratercula 
arctica), or Sea-parrot (fig. 23), which inhabits rocky districts of 
our coasts, may serve as the type of some eight other species 
which have a circumpolar distribution. They lay but a single 
egg, which they sometimes deposit in the cleft of a rock, while 
sometimes they dispute with rabbits the accommodation of their 
burrows. They are clumsy-looking Birds, which nevertheless 
have a rapid though not lofty flight. 
