They are the " taxonomers, " and their interest is more in the name than the bird.
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And, of course, you don't have to be a bird-watcher to be a taxonomer.
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Grove / Atlantic plans to print the novel in several colors of ink, corresponding to inks the taxonomer used.
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Some taxonomers include the rarer Persian fallow deer as a subspecies ( " D . d . mesopotamica " ), while others treat it as an entirely different species ( " D . mesopotamica " ).
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His other leading project was " Gould's Book of Fish, " by a Tasmanian author, Richard Flanagan, a complicated novel about Tasmanian history that revolves around a 19th-century taxonomer's depictions of a series of five fish.