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• 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.

• Australian Pratincole Stiltia isabella

  

  The Australian Pratincole uses dry, open grasslands and other bare-ground habitats, and some populations move seasonally.

• Ground Cuscus Phalanger gymnotis

  

  This cuscus has a dark stripe down its back and a tail suited for gripping branches. It searches for fruit at night and can climb.

• Geomalia Zoothera heinrichi

  

  Geomalia is restricted to Sulawesi, Indonesia. The account identifies it as Zoothera heinrichi and notes that it was formerly placed in its own genus, Geomalia.

• Common dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius

  

  A small dormouse with large eyes, small rounded ears, and a furry tail.

• Sayaca Tanager Thraupis sayaca

  

  It has a gray body with a blue cast and blue-green tail and wing tips. It uses trees in open areas, parks, and cities and eats fruit, buds, nectar, and flying insects.

• Red-flanked Duiker Cephalophus rufilatus

  This small antelope is recorded along forest–savanna mosaics from the Sahel margin into north-eastern Central Africa. It is reddish-brown, with a dark face mark and a thin tufted tail. The gray back band can vary.

• Black-billed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus somaliensis

  This bird has glossy, blackish plumage and searches tree bark for arthropods. It occurs in eastern Africa in woodland, bushland and tree-lined places near water.

• Ribbon Seal Histriophoca fasciata

  A seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic Ocean whose mature coat has pale bands around the neck, foreflippers and hips.

• Great Woodswallow Artamus maximus

  The Great Woodswallow is the largest woodswallow, marked by a dark grey head and white rump and belly.

• Great Himalayan Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros armiger

  The great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat is a large bat with gray-brown fur and leaf-like folds on its nose. It rests in caves by day and emerges early in the evening.

• Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis

  This weaver lives in African highland forest. It moves along moss-covered branches while searching for insects and fruit.

• Agricola’s Opossum Cryptonanus agricolai

  This is a small opossum. Ventral fur is unbanded white in most examined specimens, and little is known about its field ecology.

• Bell's Vireo Vireo bellii

  This small songbird has a gray-to-green back and a pale ring around each eye. It breeds in North America and winters along western Mexico and the Pacific side of Central America.

• Black-handed Titi Cheracebus medemi

  The black-handed titi occurs in the Colombian Amazon. Its species account describes dark hands, feet, tail, and underparts, with a white throat.

• Eastern Grass Owl Tyto longimembris

  This medium-sized owl lives in grassland and has long legs that project beyond the tail in flight.

• Rufous Dog-faced Bat Molossops neglectus

  This bat has reddish dark-brown fur and feeds on flying insects. Its records are separated between northern and southeastern South America, and southern specimens have tended to be smaller than northern ones.

• Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata

  This Australian robin lives in lightly timbered woodland. It uses exposed perches and drops to the ground or nearby to catch arthropods, mainly insects.

• White-handed gibbon Hylobates lar

  A gibbon of Southeast Asian forests. It swings between branches using its long arms.

• Northern Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes moseleyi

  The Northern Rockhopper Penguin is a species distinct from the Southern Rockhopper Penguin. It breeds on a small number of islands in the South Atlantic and southern Indian Ocean.

• Alexander's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus alexandri

  This small squirrel lives in lowland forests of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Its back has orange, black, and cream stripes, and it searches for food on trees by day.

• Klages's Antbird Drymophila klagesi

  Klages's Antbird lives in montane forest from northern Venezuela to eastern Colombia. Pairs forage in bamboo and dense lower growth for insects and other small prey.

• Chinese Birch Mouse Sicista concolor

  The Chinese birch mouse has a brown, unstriped back and is reported to build grass nests. Recent research suggests that the group historically treated under this name includes multiple species.

• Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii

  A large loon with a black head, white back spots, and a pale yellow bill in breeding plumage. In Alaska it uses northern and western lakes in summer and nearshore waters in winter.