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• Arfak Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus schlegeli

  

  The Arfak ring-tailed possum is a rare possum known from the Arfak Mountains in northwestern New Guinea. Its coat is orange-brown, without dorsal stripes or facial markings.

• Dark-capped Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis

  The Dark-capped Yellow Warbler occurs in the Afrotropical region and uses scrub and open habitats near freshwater. It is listed at about 13 cm and 10–11 g, and gleans small invertebrates among foliage by day.

• Javan Rusa Rusa timorensis

  A deer recorded in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

• Golden-winged Sparrow Arremon schlegeli

  This sparrow lives in woodland and scrub in Colombia and Venezuela. Its black head and yellow bill are conspicuous, and it searches near the ground for seeds, fruit, and insects.

• Pale Kangaroo Mouse Microdipodops pallidus

  The pale kangaroo mouse is a small rodent with pale fur and long hind legs. It hops on its hind feet at night and carries seeds to its burrow.

• Chestnut Quail-thrush Cinclosoma castanotum

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in arid and semi-arid southern Australia. Males have a black face and breast with a white eyebrow; females have a gray throat and breast, and may show little chestnut on the rump.

• Big Lutrine Opossum Lutreolina crassicaudata

  The big lutrine opossum is a marsupial found in scattered parts of South America. It can swim, but it is not specialized for an aquatic life.

• Plain-backed Antpitta Grallaria haplonota

  This antpitta forages on the floor of humid montane forest in the northeastern Andes. It has dusky, faintly scaled upperparts and a rufous underside with soft dark blotches.

• Monk Saki Pithecia monachus

  Male and female monk sakis have different coat colors. In a study of seasonally flooded forest in northern Peru, seeds were their most frequent food, and they also ate arthropods.

• Wilson's Bird-of-paradise Diphyllodes respublica

  Wilson's Bird-of-paradise is a bird whose adult male has vivid colors and curved central tail feathers. It lives in hill forest on Waigeo and Batanta in Indonesia.

• Carriker's Round-eared Bat Lophostoma carrikeri

  Carriker's round-eared bat is recorded in Bolivia. A Bolivian species account reports insect feeding and termite mounds used as roosts.

• Lesser flamingo Phoeniconaias minor

  A small flamingo with a long curved neck and slender pink legs, gathering on saline lakes and similar wetlands.

• Amur Hedgehog Erinaceus amurensis

  The Amur hedgehog has spines along its back and sides and lives around forests, fields and orchards in East Asia.

• White-crested turaco Tauraco leucolophus

  A bird with an upright white crest that hops through the trees.

• Ferreira’s Spiny Tree-rat Mesomys hispidus

  This arboreal rodent has stiff spines on its back and a long tail ending in a tuft. It is reported throughout the Amazon Basin and was commonly captured in mature forest in a Peruvian study.

• Wattled Jacana Jacana jacana

  The Wattled Jacana is a small wading bird that walks over floating vegetation on long, thin toes.

• Northern Three-toed Jerboa Dipus sagitta

  The northern three-toed jerboa changes coat color with the seasons. It lives in dry grasslands and deserts and mainly eats plants and seeds.

• Gray-rumped Swift Chaetura cinereiventris

  The Gray-rumped Swift is a slender, dark swift that forages in flocks in Bolivia.

• Black Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus rufoniger

  The black-spotted cuscus is an arboreal marsupial with black-and-red fur and different back patterns in males and females. It occurs in forests of northern New Guinea.

• Ural owl Strix uralensis

  A forest owl with mixed white and brown plumage, found in Eurasia including Japan.

• Northern Pocket Gopher Thomomys talpoides

  A burrowing rodent widespread in western and midwestern North America. It lives in tunnels and uses grasslands, mountain meadows, and farmland.

• Turkestan Ground Jay Podoces panderi

  A ground jay of sandy deserts dotted with saxaul and shrubs. The Kazakhstan account describes differences in size and color between 2 subspecies.

• Kit fox Vulpes macrotis

  A small fox of dry grasslands and deserts in the American Southwest. Its large ears are easy to recognize.

• Amazonian Umbrellabird Cephalopterus ornatus

  The Amazonian Umbrellabird is a large cotinga with a black body, bushy crest, and heavy bill. It feeds on fruit and large insects in forests of the Amazon basin and the eastern Andean foothills.