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There are also a number of near-endemic amphibians, species found also on lower hills near Yaoundé (and some on Mt Cameroon): Leptodactylodon ornatus, Hyperolius koehleri, H. kuligae, Kassina decorata, Leptopelis modestus, Werneria mertensi, Wolterstorffina parvipalmata.
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There are three true endemics: Amblyodipsas dimidiata, the wedge-snouted worm lizard (Geocalamus acutus), and the Mpwapwa wedge-snouted worm lizard (Geocalamus modestus).
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Raro invenitur quisquam eorum modestus et gravis, raro continens, et ut credo sobrius unquam.
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Common Field-mouse (_Microtus pennsylvannicus modestus_)
Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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Basil threatened by arian bishops and by modestus.
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Guano is formed of the excrements of different kinds of marine birds, as mews, divers, sheerbeaks, &c.; but the species which I can name with more precision are the following: -- _Larus modestus_, Tsch.;
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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Prae hac insania modestus videbitur Bucerus, quamquam est impudens, qui [92] infernum in symbolo sepulcrum accipit, per epexegesim valde praeposteram, ac potius tautologiam ineptam atque stolidam.
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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Other endemics are the Seychelles kestrel (Falco araea VU), Seychelles blue-pigeon (Alectroenas pulcherrima), Seychelles swiftlet (Collocalia elaphra VU), Seychelles bulbul (Hypsipetes crassirostris), Seychelles magpie-robin (Copsychus sechellarum CR), Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis VU), chestnut-sided white-eye (Zosterops mayottensis), Seychelles white-eye (Zosterops modestus CR), and Seychelles fody (Foudia sechellarum VU).
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