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• Peale's Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops aurispinosus

  

  Peale’s Free-tailed Bat is a Central and South American bat whose fur is usually dark brown but varies in shade. Its biology and distribution remain poorly known.

• Grey-sided Bush Warbler Cettia brunnifrons

  This small bird has a long pale stripe above the eye and a small bill. It lives in thick vegetation and searches near the ground for spiders and larvae.

• Acrobatic Cavy Kerodon acrobata

  This cavy lives in the Brazilian Cerrado and has been recorded in dry-forest patches with rocky outcrops. It mainly eats leaves, and activity has been recorded across both day and night.

• California Thrasher Toxostoma redivivum

  The California Thrasher is a large thrasher of California chaparral. It searches for food on the ground beneath dense shrubs, sweeping leaf litter with its bill.

• Buff-footed Antechinus Antechinus mysticus

  This small marsupial occurs along coastal Queensland in eastern Australia. In the southeast it occupies relatively dry, open, lowland forest; the only known mid-east population is recorded in rainforest.

• Chestnut-collared Swallow Petrochelidon rufocollaris

  This swallow occurs in western Peru and Ecuador, from lowlands to Andean foothills. The Peru Aves account describes it over scrub, deciduous woodland, and farmland.

• Euphrates Jerboa Allactaga (Paralactaga) euphratica

  Allactaga euphratica is a hopping rodent of Asia Minor and the Middle East. Its large hind feet and long tail support bounding; it has a sandy to reddish-brown back, a white underside, and lives in burrows while feeding on plants.

• Sumatran Drongo Dicrurus sumatranus

  The Sumatran Drongo lives in humid forests on Sumatra and catches insects by sallying from a perch. This account places the former Mentawai subspecies with Hair-crested Drongo.

• Maroon Langur Presbytis rubicunda

  The maroon langur is a leaf monkey of Borneo and the Karimata Islands. Its coat ranges from reddish brown to golden, and it feeds on forest plants.

• Imperial Shag Leucocarbo atriceps

  This cormorant occurs along the coasts and islands of southern South America. Breeding adults show striking blue eye-rings and black-and-white plumage, and dive at sea mainly for fish.

• Nicobar Tree Shrew Tupaia nicobarica

  The Nicobar treeshrew is restricted to Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar islands in India. A study on Great Nicobar found it active in trees and feeding mainly on insects.

• Rufous Songlark Megalurus mathewsi

  The Rufous Songlark occurs in open grassland, open woodland, and farmland in Australia. It moves south to breed in summer and returns north in colder months.

• Angolan Slender Mongoose Galerella flavescens

  This mongoose is known from southwestern Angola and northern Namibia. Angolan animals are tan or yellowish, while Namibian animals are nearly black with a reddish tinge. In Namibia it lives among large granite boulders and the drainages and woodlands connecting them.

• Slaty Spinetail Synallaxis brachyura

  This spinetail is recorded in the humid forests of Tumbes in northwestern Peru. Adults are gray with a rufous crown, and they forage in low growth at forest edges and in secondary forest.

• Dong Bac Trident Bat Aselliscus dongbacanus

  This bat is known from limestone karst in northeastern Vietnam. The original description named it Aselliscus dongbacana; this entry uses the current Mammal Diversity Database spelling, Aselliscus dongbacanus.

• White-bellied Minivet Pericrocotus erythropygius

  This account refers to Pericrocotus erythropygius and excludes the separately treated Jerdon's Minivet. Males show black, white, and orange, while females are mainly grey-brown and white.

• Tanala Tufted-tailed Rat Eliurus tanala

  This Malagasy rodent is marked by a tuft of white hair at the end of its tail. A study in eastern Madagascar found it active at night and mainly associated with trees.

• Cocos Booby Sula brewsteri

  A booby of rocky islands in the eastern Pacific. Males have a whiter face and gray bill; females have a paler brown head than female Brown Boobies.

• Southern Pudu Pudu puda

  A small deer of the temperate rainforests of Argentina and Chile. It makes trails through the undergrowth to feeding and resting places.

• Tawny-breasted Parrot-Finch Erythrura hyperythra

  The Tawny-breasted Parrotfinch is a small finch of mountain bamboo and forest edges.

• Silky Tuco-tuco Ctenomys sericeus

  This is a subterranean tuco-tuco from Patagonia, with a short, glossy coat mixing olive and brown tones with black. Much of its field natural history remains unknown.

• White-winged Flufftail Sarothrura ayresi

  The White-winged Flufftail breeds in seasonal high-altitude wetlands. White patches on both sexes' wings show clearly in flight.

• Large-spotted Civet Viverra megaspila

  The large-spotted civet is a large civet recorded in scrub near wetlands and waterways in Thailand. Large dark spots mark its flanks, and pale rings cross its tail.

• White-winged Guan Penelope albipennis

  Black plumage is set off by white wing feathers and white flecking; the throat has bare reddish-purple skin and a double-lobed dewlap. It inhabits dry forests in northwestern Peru and calls at dawn and during the breeding season.