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• Lowland Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea leucoblephara

  

  This cavy occurs in southern South America. Argentina's National Parks biodiversity profile describes its dark, black-speckled back and pale eye rings, as well as a diurnal, ground-dwelling, group-living life in shallow burrows.

• White-eared Barbet Stactolaema leucotis

  The White-eared Barbet ranges from Tanzania and Kenya south to Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, and KwaZulu-Natal, using moist woodland and forest.

• Williams's Jerboa Allactaga (Paralactaga) williamsi

  This West Asian rodent is reported from Turkey, the South Caucasus, Iran, and Lebanon. An Iranian study recorded it on sparsely vegetated, hard soils from 350 to 2,500 m.

• Chestnut-collared Longspur Calcarius ornatus

  The Chestnut-collared Longspur is a grassland bird whose plumage changes by season. Breeding males show a chestnut nape and black belly, and the birds forage on the ground for insects and seeds.

• Mexican Gray Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) aureogaster

  The Mexican gray squirrel lives among forest trees and is notable for its reddish-brown belly and flanks. Its coat varies across its range.

• Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus

  The Blue-naped Mousebird is marked by a blue nape and long tail and lives in dry parts of Africa.

• Cape Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus capensis

  Its fur is dark brown above and light gray underneath. It has a horseshoe-shaped nose leaf used in echolocation and large ears.

• Crested Drongo Dicrurus forficatus

  This black drongo has a crest and forked tail and occurs on Madagascar and Anjouan.

• Forest Rabbit Sylvilagus brasiliensis

  This rabbit was reassessed using a neotype from Pernambuco. Older, broad South American records are not carried forward as confirmed range for this taxon; this account stays with documented coastal-forest evidence.

• Lesser Prairie Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

  This ground-dwelling bird has barred brown-and-white plumage and lives in grasslands of the southern United States. In spring, males gather at display grounds to court females.

• São Tomé Shrew Crocidura thomensis

  The São Tomé shrew is known only from São Tomé Island. It has a long snout and large ears, and field observers have seen it feeding in wet places.

• Spix's Guan Penelope jacquacu

  This galliform lives in forest habitats. In Ecuador it occurs in Amazonian lowland and eastern montane forests, foraging mainly in the middle and upper tree layers.

• Delicate Pseudomys Pseudomys delicatulus

  The Delicate Pseudomys is a small mouse recorded from northern to eastern Australia. It eats grass seeds and has been reported digging simple burrows in grassy habitat.

• Blue Mockingbird Melanotis caerulescens

  This mockingbird occurs mainly in Mexico. In a study of three riparian sites in Jalisco, abundance was higher where shrub cover was greater, and breeding took place from April to August.

• Forest Giant Pouched Rat Cricetomys emini

  Study animals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were slender and had short, soft gray fur. They used underground burrows and were active both by day and at night.

• Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus

  A seabird that breeds on Arctic tundra and may steal food from other seabirds. Adults vary from dark to pale color forms.

• Pantanal Punare Thrichomys pachyurus

  This spiny rat lives in central South America. Most animals have the usual coat, but some individuals with predominantly white fur have been reported; it uses densely vegetated places.

• Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla

  The Little Bunting is a small bunting that visits Britain from Russia. In Britain, most records are in autumn, and some birds are found in winter flocks of buntings.

• Peale's Dolphin Lagenorhynchus australis

  Peale's dolphin occurs along the cold-temperate coast of southern South America. A study in the Strait of Magellan documented animals in a bay with kelp beds. The Mammal Diversity Database currently lists Cephalorhynchus australis and records Lagenorhynchus australis as an earlier name.

• Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus

  A small hornbill with a striking red bill. It inhabits tropical lowland forest and gives wavering whistles alone or in pairs.

• Mountain Cuscus Phalanger carmelitae

  The mountain cuscus is an arboreal marsupial of New Guinea's mountains. It has thick, dark fur and feeds on leaves and fruit at night.

• Ridgetop Swiftlet Collocalia isonota

  A swiftlet of the Philippine mountains, it has a mostly dark rump and occurs in northern Luzon, Mindanao and other southern islands.

• Volcan de Toluca Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys planiceps

  This pocket gopher is known from Mexico's volcanic region. Its back is dark, with lighter brown mixed into the fur along its sides.

• White-throated Oxylabes Oxylabes madagascariensis

  A forest-floor babbler of humid evergreen forest in eastern Madagascar. It searches for small invertebrates on the ground and in the lower vegetation.