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• Golden-brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus ravelobensis

  

  This is a small, golden-brown lemur. At study sites in northwestern Madagascar, it searched for food alone in trees at night and was recorded resting in tree holes and similar places.

• North Island Saddleback Philesturnus rufusater

  

  The North Island Saddleback is glossy black with a chestnut saddle and rump, a pale line at the saddle’s front, and red wattles at the bill base. It feeds on insects, fruit, and nectar in New Zealand forests.

• Western Spotted Skunk Spilogale gracilis

  

  This black-and-white skunk is active at night in Washington and uses cover such as thickets and fallen wood.

• Vinous-throated Parrotbill Suthora webbiana

  

  This small bird has a rounded head and long tail; adults are orange-brown with rufous wing patches. It is social and uses habitats from woods and gardens to reedbeds and scrubby farmland.

• Tanala Tufted-tailed Rat Eliurus tanala

  

  This Malagasy rodent is marked by a tuft of white hair at the end of its tail. A study in eastern Madagascar found it active at night and mainly associated with trees.

• Germain's Swiftlet Aerodramus germani

  

  Germain's Swiftlet is a swiftlet whose taxonomic treatment varies among sources. A southern Thailand foraging study treated it as Aerodramus inexpectatus germani and reported foraging over water, forest and open paddy.

• Wyoming Pocket Gopher Thomomys clusius

  This small pocket gopher occurs in southern Wyoming. It has pale yellow-gray fur and is recorded on fine-soil flats, including areas with Gardner saltbush.

• Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea

  This flycatcher ranges widely from West to East Africa. It searches for insects in forest and woodland, along rivers and in farmland, and builds a low nest.

• Fraser's Dolphin Lagenodelphis hosei

  A stocky, short-beaked dolphin that lives in deep offshore waters.

• Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus

  It moves through branches and brush like a mouse. It eats fruit, seeds, nectar, ants, and termites.

• Wrinkle-faced Bat Centurio senex

  The wrinkle-faced bat has folds of skin around its broad, flat face, giving it a wrinkled look. It is nocturnal and eats fruit.

• Guianan Puffbird Notharchus macrorhynchos

  The Guianan Puffbird is a forest bird with a white forehead and throat and a broad black breast band. It ranges through the Guianas, eastern Venezuela, and northeastern Brazil.

• Thick-tailed Three-toed Jerboa Stylodipus telum

  This jerboa occurs in a broken belt of dry country from the lower Dnieper to Lake Zaysan.

• Cinnamon Bracken Warbler Bradypterus cinnamomeus

  This bird occurs in damp scrub and thickets along forest edges in the East African highlands. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a pale eyebrow and a cinnamon-colored breast band.

• Colombian White-faced Capuchin Cebus capucinus

  White fur on the face, throat, and chest is distinctive. Its tail supports the body in trees but is not used to grasp objects.

• Gould's Toucanet Selenidera gouldii

  A small toucan relative with a black head and chest in males and chestnut-brown head and chest in females. It lives in humid South American forests, and detailed diet records are limited.

• White-lipped Deer Cervus albirostris

  The white-lipped deer lives in high country of the Tibetan Plateau. White markings around the muzzle and throat and broad hooves are distinctive.

• Rufous-winged Fulvetta Schoeniparus castaneceps

  This fulvetta ranges from the Himalayas to southern China and northern Indochina. It has a chestnut crown and pale eyebrow, and searches the forest understorey for insects.

• Sunda Shrew Crocidura monticola

  The Sunda shrew has gray-brown fur on its back and paler fur underneath. Under the current taxonomy cited in the account, it occurs on Java and is found in montane forest.

• Long-tailed Ground Roller Uratelornis chimaera

  The Long-tailed Ground Roller is a ground-dwelling bird of dry forest in southwestern Madagascar. Its long tail and patterned head are distinctive.

• Mantled Howler Alouatta palliata

  The mantled howler is a monkey with black fur and, in most individuals, long yellow or brown hairs hanging along the flanks. It feeds on leaves, fruit, and flowers in the forest canopy.

• Blyth's Reed Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum

  Blyth's Reed Warbler is a small reed warbler that lives among grasses and shrubs. It breeds across northern Eurasia and migrates to South Asia for winter.

• Narrow-striped Boky Mungotictis decemlineata

  The narrow-striped mongoose is a small mongoose of the dry deciduous forests of western Madagascar. Its gray-beige coat has dark stripes along the back and flanks. It often rests in tree holes on wet-season nights and in ground burrows in the dry season.

• Rodrigues Fody Foudia flavicans

  A small bird endemic to Rodrigues. Both sexes are usually brown on the back, wings and tail, and search branches and leaf undersides for insects.