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• Black-breasted Plovercrest Stephanoxis lalandi

  

  This small crested hummingbird occurs in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. A 2014 taxonomic study restored the boundary between two forms that earlier authors had treated as one species.

• Brumback's Night Monkey Aotus brumbacki

  Brumback’s night monkey is a nocturnal primate described as endemic to Colombia’s Llanos. It sleeps in cavities in both living and dead trees.

• Grey-throated Barbet Gymnobucco bonapartei

  This social barbet feeds on fruit in groups; adult males have a grey throat and brown plumage.

• Florida Bonneted Bat Eumops floridanus

  A large bat of southern Florida, it catches insects in flight and roosts in tree cavities and some building spaces.

• 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.

• Corsac fox Vulpes corsac

  A large-eared fox of the grasslands and semi-deserts of Central Asia.

• New Zealand Grebe Poliocephalus rufopectus

  The New Zealand Grebe is an endemic diving bird. In breeding plumage, the neck and breast become rich rufous red.

• Chinese Rufous Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus sinicus

  The Chinese rufous horseshoe bat ranges from South Asia through China and Vietnam. It is reported from rainy montane forests.

• Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys

  The Willie Wagtail has a white eyebrow and chest, a black head and back, and a long tail. It wags its tail while searching for insects on the ground or in grassland.

• Common Shaggy Bat Centronycteris maximiliani

  This bat is recorded in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, and the Guianas. In Pará, Brazil, a female was captured at a tree cavity used as a day roost.

• Broad-billed Motmot Electron platyrhynchum

  This forest bird ranges from Central America into northwestern South America and catches insects and small animals.

• Bolivian Red Howler Alouatta sara

  The Bolivian red howler is a large howler monkey of lowland tropical and subtropical forests in South America. It mainly eats leaves, fruit, and flowers, and gives loud calls.

• Rosy-patched Bushshrike Telophorus cruentus

  The Rosy-patched Bushshrike is about 22–24 cm long. It is active by day in dry thorn scrub and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• Java Warty Pig Sus verrucosus

  This pig occurs on Java and Bawean Island. It has an elongated face and uses cultivated landscapes and teak plantations mixed with grassland, scrub, and secondary forest.

• Rufous-winged Philentoma Philentoma pyrhoptera

  This bird inhabits evergreen and peat-swamp forests in Southeast Asian lowlands and hills. The cited page describes male plumage. Its diet is poorly known, and suggested insect prey is explicitly an inference.

• Northern Nail-tail Wallaby Onychogalea unguifera

  The northern nail-tail wallaby is a small wallaby with a claw-like projection at the tip of its tail. It is nocturnal and lives in lightly wooded and grassy places near water in northern Australia.

• Channel-billed Toucan Ramphastos vitellinus

  The Channel-billed Toucan lives in the canopy of lowland forests in South America. It may be seen alone, in pairs, or in small flocks around fruiting trees.

• Coiban Agouti Dasyprocta coibae

  The Coiban agouti is a medium-sized rodent considered endemic to Coiba Island, Panama. A camera-trap study there recorded activity during daylight.

• Chiming Wedgebill Psophodes occidentalis

  The Chiming Wedgebill inhabits arid Australia. It uses mulga woodland and low shrubland in Shark Bay, picking insects from the ground and small trees.

• Silky Pocket Mouse Perognathus flavus

  The silky pocket mouse is a small rodent with soft fur and short ears. It searches for seeds at night and carries them back to its burrow for storage.

• White-browed Fulvetta Fulvetta vinipectus

  This fulvetta is native to Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. BirdLife describes it as an altitudinal migrant recorded at 2,000–4,400 m.

• Kreb's African Fat Mouse Steatomys krebsii

  Krebs's fat mouse is a small, long-tailed rodent with a patchy range in southern Africa. It is described as nocturnal and ground-dwelling, favoring dry sandy places.

• Short-legged Ground Roller Brachypteracias leptosomus

  The Short-legged Ground Roller lives in Madagascar's humid forests. By day, it searches for invertebrates on the leaf-littered forest floor.

• Black-mantled Tamarin Leontocebus nigricollis

  This entry covers the nominate subspecies of the black-mantled tamarin. It inhabits humid tropical forest and edges; its described features include a black mantle, bare ears, and a gray-white muzzle.