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ELEMENTS OP OENITHOLOGT. 



From the various extremely aquatic Birds which have been here 

 noticed, beginning with the Divers, we may now pass to another 

 set oE 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 (Phalacrocoraw carlo) 

 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 



