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Steve L says: the thing at michael tobis' place right now is on topic apparently from Hank but on youtube -- a Scripps oceanography/paleo guy describing how just measuring something gets you labeled as an advocate:

Large bird whistle posting EliRabett 2010

Along with the rotge and the loom two nearly allied species of birds, _lunnefogeln_, the Arctic puffin (_Mormon arcticus_, L.) and _tejsten_ or _tobis-grisslan_, the black guillemot (_Uria grylle_, L.) are to be seen among the drift-ice.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

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Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis .. 1788