24 ELEMENTS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
From the various extremely aquatic Birds which have been here 
noticed, beginning with the Divers, we may now pass to another 
set of Birds of different structure, which are not less wonderfully 
agile in their subaqueous movements in pursuit of prey. Of 
Fig. 22. 

The King Penguin (Aptenodytes longirostris). 
these, our English species the Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) 
and the Shag (P. graculus) may be taken as types, and some 
thirty or more other kinds are to be found in different parts 
of the world, save in the Polar regions and amongst the Pacific 
Islands. Ardent and successful fishers, they, by the help of 
