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POPULAR HISTORY OF BIRDS. 
may be witnessed. The Lombs^ Bay^ in Nova Zembla^ de- 
rived its name from the number of these aquatic birds found 
there by its discoverer. 
In the Antarctic seas similar scenes may be witnessed^ 
though the birds which form them belong to different spe- 
cies^ and^ in the case of the penguins^ to different genera. 
The voyage of Captain Sir James Clark Ross contains many 
allusions to the lively effects produced^ in otherwise dreary 
places^ by the presence of sea-birds. The petrels^ tropic 
birds^ and albatrosses often lighten up the sea over which 
they skim^ fly^ or soar. 
The lakes in the northern parts of the world are often 
covered in summer with the water-birds which migrate to 
them. Mr. Simpson, the North American explorer, tells us 
that the Canadian voyageurs call a very large lake which he 
visited Lac aux Plumes/^ from the multitude of wildfowl 
which moult there every summer"^; and every traveller and 
naturalist, in these remote regions, is struck with the im- 
mense abundance of the web-footed birds, which there, 
almost undisturbed by man or other animals, rear their 
young, and find, during the short but warm summer, abun- 
^ 'Narrative of Discoveries on tlie North Coast of America, in 1836-39,' 
by Thomas Simpson, Esq,, p. 42. 
