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  • The number of endemic species in this ecoregion is high, with 35 range-restricted species and endemics, including diademed tapaculo (Scytalopus schulenbergi), and green-capped tanager (Tangara meyerdeschauenseei).

    Bolivian Yungas 2008

  • Heck, I might even overlook fermented garbanzo beans, but I draw the line at those green-capped yellow plastic bottle shaped like lemons.

    Bodega Wine Bar - What "How Are You?" Really Means 2006

  • Heck, I might even overlook fermented garbanzo beans, but I draw the line at those green-capped yellow plastic bottle shaped like lemons.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • About thirty brown-suited, green-capped Soviet guards swarmed on board.

    Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

  • About thirty brown-suited, green-capped Soviet guards swarmed on board.

    Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

  • Massive movement in the dusk: Russian guardsmen, green-capped elite, marching and riding, pokerfaced, in trucks, on horseback.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Clear, sparkling water dotted with fishing-boats and wild-fowl, little green-capped islands with white cliffs and a range of lofty mountains in the background.

    Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready

  • When it reached the bluff where the sand mounted into green-capped dunes, patched in their hollows with shadows of violet, it slowed down and came to a stop before Willie Spence's weathered cottage.

    Flood Tide Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • It appeared to be very large; neither to east nor to west could I see any end to the vista of green-capped cliffs.

    The Lost World 1912

  • She looked across the bay to Monte Carlo glittering in the morning sunlight, to the green-capped head of Cap-d'Ail, to Beaulieu, a jewel set in greystone and shook her head.

    The Angel of Terror Edgar Wallace 1903

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