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• Dry Chaco Fat-tailed Opossum Thylamys pulchellus

  

  This small opossum is recorded in northern Argentina. Argentina’s 2019 assessment lists localities across several provinces, chiefly in the Chaco region.

• Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus

  

  The Bronze-winged Courser is a ground-dwelling bird of dry African country. It is mostly active at dusk and night, and usually runs rather than flies when disturbed.

• Common Oenomys Oenomys hypoxanthus

  

  The common Oenomys has a red nose and a white-to-orange underside. At Mount Kupe in Cameroon it was also caught in a village and fallow land; its coat color and body size vary geographically.

• Cinereous Tit Parus cinereus

  

  The Cinereous Tit has white cheeks and a black band from the chest down the belly. The Japanese account records it from towns to mountain areas and says it uses moss and animal hair in its nest.

• Kalimantan Treeshrew Tupaia salatana

  

  Tupaia salatana is recorded in southern Borneo. The IUCN account reports reliance on natural forest as well as records from natural remnants within plantations.

• Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles exustus

  

  The Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry country. It eats seeds and flies daily to water, where large flocks gather; males and females differ in plumage.

• Felou Gundi Felovia vae

  The Felou gundi is a West African rodent associated with rocky places. A habitat model found suitable sites more often on steep, rocky ground near water.

• Point-tailed Palmcreeper Berlepschia rikeri

  This ovenbird occurs in palm groves of northern and central South America and searches among palm fronds for arthropods.

• Southern Blossom Bat Syconycteris australis

  This small bat lives in forests of eastern and north-eastern Australia and feeds on flower nectar and pollen. It may land on blossoms or hover in front of them while feeding.

• Great Spotted Kiwi Apteryx maxima

  A flightless, nocturnal kiwi that probes the soil and leaf litter with its long bill to find small prey.

• Baird's Pocket Gopher Geomys breviceps

  This pocket gopher is smaller than close relatives and occurs in eastern Texas. Underground stores of rhizomes may provide food in winter.

• Banded Quail Philortyx fasciatus

  The Banded Quail is a small quail of south-central Mexico. Adults have a short crest and rows of black bars across the underparts.

• Masai giraffe Giraffa tippelskirchi

  The Masai giraffe occurs in Kenya, Tanzania and part of Zambia.

• Socorro Wren Troglodytes sissonii

  The Socorro Wren is a wren of Socorro Island, Mexico. Species accounts record it in dry forest and dry shrubland.

• Cape Gray Mongoose Galerella pulverulenta

  This slender mongoose lives in southern Africa. It uses bushes and rocky areas and may dig for prey in the soil.

• Teardrop White-eye Rukia ruki

  The Teardrop White-eye is recorded on four islands in the Faichuk group of Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia. It has been observed in old native forest and secondary forest, where it gleans insects from foliage.

• Lesser Bamboo Rat Cannomys badius

  The Lesser Bamboo Rat is a rodent of bamboo forests, thickets, and hilly ground. It leaves its burrow in the evening to feed on plants and has short, powerful legs with digging claws.

• Gray Trembler Cinclocerthia gutturalis

  This trembler occurs on Martinique and Saint Lucia. The Martinique source describes it in humid forest and gives a length of about 23–26 cm.

• Philippine Brown Deer Rusa marianna

  This deer lives in the Philippines, including mountain and mossy forests. Young animals have pale spots on their backs and sides.

• Riverbank Warbler Myiothlypis rivularis

  The Riverbank Warbler lives in lowland forests and wet places along South American rivers. It has a dark crown, white eyebrow, green upperparts, and a pale underside.

• Hope Porcupine Coendou speratus

  This small, long-tailed porcupine was described from Atlantic Forest on the northeastern coast of Brazil. Its back appears fully spiny because it lacks long dorsal fur, and the quill tips are reddish brown against a dark background.

• White-browed Woodswallow Artamus superciliosus

  The White-browed Woodswallow is an Australian bird with a striking white eyebrow. It moves in large flocks between seasonal ranges and catches insects in flight.

• Guianan Long-nosed Armadillo Dasypus guianensis

  Dasypus guianensis is an armadillo described after populations on the Guiana Shield were separated from a close relative. The original paper combined genetic data and museum-specimen morphology and places the range from northern Brazil through the Guianas to eastern Venezuela.

• Little Yellow Flycatcher Erythrocercus holochlorus

  This small bird lives in coastal East African woodland, moving through the trees and often feeding in mixed-species flocks.