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The gray-cheeked mangabey can also be found in Central Africa and westward toward the Congo River and east to the shores of the Lualaba River in DRC.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Primatologist Colin Groves has upgraded a Uganda population of gray-cheeked mangebays (Lophocebus albigena) to full species status (Lophocebus ugandae).
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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This community shares some species with both the Laurentian Mixed Forest and boreal forest, but some species are unique to its alpine tundra, such as longtail shrew, boreal (southern) redback vole, gray-cheeked thrush, spruce grouse, and gray jay.
Adirondack-New England Mixed Forest - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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In comparison crowned guenon (Cercopithecus pogonias EN), chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes, EN), agile mangabey (Cercocebus agilis), and gray-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) occur only on the right bank.
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We must be on the watch these days for the beautiful wood thrush, the lesser spotted veery, the well named olive-back and the rarer gray-cheeked thrush.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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And suddenly, in a moment, their fingers entwined and tightened, for on the roof of Sokwenna's cabin the little gray-cheeked thrush was singing again.
The Alaskan James Oliver Curwood 1903
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A gray-cheeked thrush flew up to the roof of Sokwenna's cabin and began to sing.
The Alaskan James Oliver Curwood 1903
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I have met the gray-cheeked thrush in the woods, and held him in my hand; still I do not know him.
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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In its appearance to the eye among the trees, one would not distinguish it from the gray-cheeked thrush of Baird, or the olive-backed thrush, but its song is totally different.
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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[Footnote 1: Bicknell's thrush turns out to be the more southern form of the gray-cheeked thrush, and is found on the higher mountains of New York and New England.]
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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