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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). 



Fig. 21. 



The Great Auk (_JIca impenim). 



A curious and much smaller Bird, called the Puffin (B-atercula 

 aretica), 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. 



