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• Coimbra Filho's Titi Callicebus coimbrai

  

  Black forehead, crown and ears set off the striped front half of this titi monkey's back. One group studied in a southern Sergipe forest fragment fed more during the wet season and rested more during the dry season. Its Atlantic Forest range includes Sergipe and northern coastal Bahia.

• Austral Blackbird Curaeus curaeus

  

  This blackbird occurs in Chile and Argentina. It uses woodland, scrub, fields, and towns, and searches on the ground for small animals and plant foods.

• Desert Spotted Skunk Spilogale leucoparia

  

  This skunk has black and white back stripes of nearly equal width in the Texas account. Most Texas capture records are from rocky bluffs, cliffs, or brush-lined canyon streams.

• Rufous-necked Puffbird Malacoptila rufa

  

  This puffbird lives in Amazonian lowland forest. Its gray head, rufous neck, and white crescent on the chest stand out; it is recorded most often in the understory of várzea forest.

• Western Tree Hyrax Dendrohyrax dorsalis

  

  This hyrax has short ears and legs and thick fur ranging from gray-brown to black. It feeds at night on leaves, fruit, and other plant material and usually lives alone.

• Montane Nightjar Caprimulgus poliocephalus

  

  The Montane Nightjar is about 22–24 cm long. It is active at night and hunts insects in highland forest and semi-open places.

• Philippine Slow Loris Nycticebus menagensis

  The Philippine Slow Loris has a white muzzle and small dark rings around the eyes. It is nocturnal and spends almost all of its time in trees.

• Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus

  A social bird that probes tree trunks with a long, curved red bill.

• Alpaca Vicugna pacos

  A domestic camelid raised for its fiber in the Andean highlands. It lives in herds and has many coat colors.

• Chowchilla Orthonyx spaldingii

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in the tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland. Groups of about two to five defend year-round territories and search leaf litter for small animals.

• Greater Naked Bat Cheiromeles torquatus

  The greater naked bat is mostly hairless, with a ring of black bristles around its neck. It occurs in Southeast Asia and hunts insects at night.

• Nepal Cupwing Pnoepyga immaculata

  The Nepal Cupwing is known from records in central Nepal. A 2010 field note reports hearing at least four birds in northern India and later observing one individual.

• Atlas Gundi Ctenodactylus gundi

  The Atlas gundi is a rodent of rocky, dry places in North Africa. Its compact body, large eyes, and tiny tail are useful clues.

• American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus

  A large shorebird that searches tidal flats and beaches for shellfish with its long orange-red bill.

• Greater Bamboo Lemur Prolemur simus

  A bamboo-eating lemur, it moves among branches with long hind legs and tail and can be active both by day and at night.

• Ethiopian Oriole Oriolus monacha

  It occurs in the western and southeastern Ethiopian highlands, the Rift Valley, and southern Ethiopia, at about 1,200–3,200 m.

• Southern African hedgehog Atelerix frontalis

  The southern African hedgehog has a white band across its forehead and a range of separated populations in southern Africa.

• Taliabu Grasshopper-warbler Locustella portenta

  This warbler is restricted to the highlands of western Taliabu Island, Indonesia. Field observations in 2012 described a brown bird with a clear white eyebrow.

• Malayan porcupine Hystrix (Acanthion) brachyura

  The Malayan porcupine is a nocturnal rodent with long spines on its back. It occurs in forests of mainland Southeast Asia, Sumatra and Borneo.

• Grey-crested Cacholote Pseudoseisura unirufa

  This ovenbird occurs in seasonally flooded savannas and woodland in parts of Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil. It has mainly rufous-cinnamon plumage and a greyish crest.

• Mongolian marmot Marmota (Marmota) sibirica

  The Siberian marmot hibernates through the harsh season.

• Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii

  This small bird lives at forest edges and in open woodland in west-central Africa. It has chestnut on the crown, rump, and tail, with a buff breast and white belly. It gleans insects from leaves and sometimes sallies after flying insects.

• Ursine Tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus ursinus

  This tree-kangaroo has a black back and a white tail tip. It lives in West Papua’s montane rainforest, but its wild diet is poorly known.

• Tit Berrypecker Oreocharis arfaki

  The Tit Berrypecker is a fruit-eating bird of New Guinea’s montane forest. Males show bright yellow and orange, while females are mainly olive and gray.