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• Red-tailed Sportive Lemur Lepilemur ruficaudatus

  

  The red-tailed sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur with a gray-brown body and reddish tail. It rests in tree holes by day and feeds on leaves.

• New Caledonian Parakeet Cyanoramphus saisseti

  This green parakeet lives in New Caledonia's forests. This entry treats Cyanoramphus saisseti as a species, while BirdLife's taxonomy treats the New Caledonian form as a subspecies of the Red-fronted Parakeet.

• Red-nosed Bearded Saki Chiropotes albinasus

  The red-nosed bearded saki feeds on fruit and nuts in the canopy forests of South America.

• Tawny-bellied Babbler Dumetia hyperythra

  The Tawny-bellied Babbler searches for food among grass and fallen leaves. Plumage on its throat and belly varies among subspecies.

• Brown Dorcopsis Dorcopsis muelleri

  The brown dorcopsis is a wallaby of New Guinea forests. A field study in West Papua also recorded its use of riverbank grassland.

• Maguari Stork Ciconia maguari

  The Maguari Stork lives in South American wetlands. It has contrasting black-and-white plumage and searches for prey while walking through shallow water.

• Pearson's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus pearsonii

  This horseshoe bat ranges across parts of South and Southeast Asia. Its back is brown and underside paler.

• Black-headed Parrotbill Paradoxornis margaritae

  The Black-headed Parrotbill is recorded in southern Annam, in southern Vietnam and adjacent Cambodia. It has a black cap and pale cheek area, and small flocks move through scrub along forest edges from lower vegetation to the canopy.

• Common Four-eyed Opossum Philander canus

  Philander canus has short, uniformly gray back fur and pale underparts. A 2018 revision reports that in eastern Bolivia’s Cerrado landscapes it is apparently restricted to tall evergreen gallery forest.

• Raggiana Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea raggiana

  The Raggiana Bird-of-paradise has strongly different male and female plumage. Males display red flank plumes in courtship, while females care for the nest and young.

• Sunda Clouded Leopard Neofelis diardi

  A forest-dwelling cat of Borneo and Sumatra, known for its cloud-shaped coat markings.

• Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus

  The Black Scimitarbill is an African bird with a long curved bill and tail that searches tree trunks and branches for food.

• Palawan Bearded Pig Sus ahoenobarbus

  Adult Palawan bearded pigs have a pale mane and a long beard that crosses the snout. The species occurs in the Palawan Faunal Region of the Philippines.

• Gansu Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus kansuensis

  This small leaf-warbler breeds in western China. Its breeding forest and pale facial and crown stripes help describe it.

• Sunda Shrew Crocidura monticola

  The Sunda shrew has gray-brown fur on its back and paler fur underneath. Under the current taxonomy cited in the account, it occurs on Java and is found in montane forest.

• Vanuatu Megapode Megapodius layardi

  The Vanuatu Megapode has bare red skin on its face and yellow legs. It lays eggs in burrows and uses heat from volcanic soil or sun-warmed ground.

• Smoky Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys fumosus

  The smoky pocket gopher is a burrowing rodent of the southern Mexican Plateau, where volcanic soils occur. Its large foreclaws help it dig underground.

• Compact Weaver Ploceus superciliosus

  This small weaver is about 12 cm long. The account lists moist open grassland and a seed-based diet. Sound recordings include Gwarimpa in Abuja, Nigeria.

• Karoo Round-eared Sengi Macroscelides proboscideus

  A small sengi with a long nose and large eyes that lives on gravel plains in the Karoo region.

• Crimson-breasted Shrike Laniarius atrococcineus

  A black shrike with a white wing stripe and vivid red underparts, it lives in dry scrub and savanna of southern Africa, where pairs defend territories.

• Dama gazelle Nanger dama

  A gazelle that feeds on shrubs and grasses in arid country.

• Red-keeled Flowerpecker Dicaeum australe

  A Philippine flowerpecker that feeds on fruit and nectar.

• Panamanian White-faced Capuchin Cebus imitator

  A capuchin monkey of Central American forests. Its dark body contrasts with a pale face, and its hands and tail help it search for varied foods.

• Coppery-chested Jacamar Galbula pastazae

  The Coppery-chested Jacamar is a 23–24 cm jacamar of humid mountain forest. Its account classifies it as an aerial hunter of invertebrates.