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• Fulvous Pocket Gopher Megascapheus fulvus

  

  This pocket gopher ranges across the western and southwestern United States and Mexico. A specimen obtained by its describer near San Francisco Mountain had reddish-brown upperparts, a whitish underside, and long, flattened foreclaws.

• White-tailed Cisticola Cisticola anderseni

  

  A cisticola of wetlands in the Kilombero floodplain of southwestern Tanzania. Its outer tail feathers and tips are white, and its back is streaked.

• Desmarest's Hutia Capromys pilorides

  

  This hutia lives in Cuba and nearby islands. Its back is often darker than its underside, and coat colors vary.

• Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla

  

  The Nashville Warbler is a small bird that breeds in North America and winters in Mexico. Its white eye ring and foraging in shrub tangles are distinctive.

• Pallid Fat-tailed Opossum Thylamys pallidior

  

  The pallid fat-tailed opossum is a small marsupial of dry habitats and high-elevation grasslands. It stores fat near the base of its tail and is mainly terrestrial, though it can climb shrubs and small trees.

• Spotted Antpitta Hylopezus macularius

  

  A ground-dwelling antpitta of humid Amazonian forest. This account follows the populations assigned to Hylopezus macularius in the taxonomic revision.

• Eastern Hoolock Gibbon Hoolock leuconedys

  Eastern hoolock gibbons live in forests from Myanmar and northeastern India to southern Yunnan in China. Pairs sing in coordinated calls.

• Broad-billed Tody Todus subulatus

  The Broad-billed Tody is a small bird found only on Hispaniola. It hunts insects and also occurs in lowland woodland, thorn scrub, and coffee and cacao farms.

• Huemul Hippocamelus bisulcus

  The huemul is a mountain-adapted deer that lives in the Patagonian forests of Argentina and Chile.

• Eared Quetzal Euptilotis neoxenus

  The Eared Quetzal lives in mountain forests of northwestern Mexico. Males have black ear tufts and a red belly, while females have grey-brown heads and breasts and a paler pink belly.

• Angolan Genet Genetta angolensis

  The Angolan genet inhabits open miombo woodland interspersed with savanna. A 2007–2012 dry-season survey in western Tanzania recorded it at night with camera traps and night transects.

• Short-toed Coucal Centropus rectunguis

  About 37 cm long, this coucal resembles the Greater Coucal but is smaller and shorter-tailed. It searches for food on the ground and in the understorey of lowland evergreen forest.

• Napo Saki Pithecia napensis

  The Napo saki is a saki monkey of northwestern South American forests. Its long, coarse coat mixes gray, cream, and black hairs. A survey in northern Peru recorded it in both flooded forest and terra firme forest.

• Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa

  A large wader that walks wetlands on long legs, moving between breeding and wintering areas.

• Plains Spotted Skunk Spilogale interrupta

  In Texas, this small, striped skunk is mostly nocturnal and may stand on its forelegs to warn a threat.

• Tooth-billed Bowerbird Scenopoeetes dentirostris

  This bird lives in upland rainforest in northeastern Queensland. During the breeding season, the male courts on a display court arranged with leaves.

• Red slender loris Loris tardigradus

  The red slender loris is a small primate endemic to Sri Lanka. A 2017 study places the species across the island's wet zone and montane areas.

• Black Tinamou Tinamus osgoodi

  This ground-dwelling tinamou lives in humid foothill forest along the eastern Andes. Its known populations are separated, and Colombia also has a recorded population whose classification remains unresolved.

• Sinaloan Mastiff Bat Molossus sinaloae

  The Sinaloan mastiff bat has dark brown fur above and paler brown fur below. It hunts moths, beetles, and other insects in flight at night.

• Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala

  Males have noticeable red plumage, while females are mostly brown. Their plumage differs by sex.

• Red-fronted Lemur Eulemur rufus

  This lemur is notable for its black face and pale cheek fur. Males and females have different coat colors, and female coloration varies by region.

• Little Pied Cormorant Microcarbo melanoleucos

  The Little Pied Cormorant is a small cormorant of Australia and nearby regions, with contrasting dark upperparts and a white underside.

• Eastern Mindanao Gymnure Podogymnura intermedia

  Podogymnura intermedia is a gymnure known from mountain sites in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. Long black hairs and golden-tipped hairs give its back golden streaks or speckles.

• Red-throated Tit Melaniparus fringillinus

  The Red-throated Tit is a small tit of acacia woodland and savanna in Kenya and Tanzania, with records from about 100 to 1,600 m.