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• Black Currawong Strepera fuliginosa

  

  This black bird is confined to Tasmania and nearby islands. White tips on its wings and tail and its yellow eye are distinctive; it feeds in forests and near towns.

• Ka'apor Capuchin Cebus kaapori

  

  It has cream-colored cheeks and shoulders, a dark crown, and a tail that helps it move among branches. A dry-season study in Pará found fruit to be its main food.

• Rüppell's Korhaan Heterotetrax rueppelii

  

  Rüppell's Korhaan is a bustard of stony semi-desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola. Males have a gray-blue head with black bands, while females are less strongly marked and duller overall.

• Lesser Brocket Mazama nanus

  

  The lesser brocket is a small deer of dense subtropical vegetation in southeastern South America. Its coat is reddish brown, darker along the back; an Argentine account says it eats leaves, shoots, and fruit.

• Rufous-winged Cisticola Cisticola galactotes

  

  The Rufous-winged Cisticola is a small cisticola of grassland and wetland edges in southeastern Africa. Its rufous back feathers help identify it.

• Small Mexican Small-eared Shrew Cryptotis mexicanus

  

  This small-eared shrew lives in the mountains of Mexico. It has dark brown fur above and a slightly paler underside; the account lists damp montane forests as habitat.

• Forest Thrush Turdus lherminieri

  The Forest Thrush has russet upperparts, a yellow bill and legs, and a scaly-looking breast. It searches leaf litter for small prey and also eats fruit.

• Maranhão Red-handed Howler Alouatta ululata

  The Maranhão red-handed howler lives in open, dry vegetation in northeastern Brazil. Museum specimens have been described as showing sex-related coat differences, but the original study called for further research to confirm them.

• Andean condor Vultur gryphus

  A large soaring bird that searches for carrion in the Andes and nearby open country.

• Pousargues' mongoose Dologale dybowskii

  This small mongoose has a brown body, a gray face, and a bushy tail. It has been recorded in Central Africa, but little is known about its life in the wild.

• Jouanin's Petrel Bulweria fallax

  Jouanin's Petrel is a sooty-brown seabird of the northwestern Indian Ocean. It visits breeding sites at night and nests on the coastal cliffs of Socotra Island.

• Cape genet Genetta tigrina

  A southern African genet with dark spots on a pale coat and rings on its tail. It is active at night and climbs well.

• Crested Ibon Lophozosterops dohertyi

  This white-eye-family bird occurs in forests of Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands. It is about 12 cm long and feeds on fruit.

• Dark Sheath-tailed Bat Mosia nigrescens

  The Dark Sheath-tailed Bat is a small bat recorded on islands of Southeast Asia. A survey in Sulawesi described an individual with a flattened muzzle and widely spaced nostrils.

• Syrian Serin Serinus syriacus

  A small finch with a bright yellow face. It nests in trees in Middle Eastern mountains and eats grass and herb seeds.

• Columbia Plateau Pocket Mouse Perognathus parvus

  The Columbia Plateau pocket mouse is a small North American rodent that carries seeds in fur-lined cheek pouches. Its back is pinkish buff with a dark overlay, and its tail is long and bicolored.

• Victoria's Riflebird Ptiloris victoriae

  The male Victoria’s Riflebird is black with an iridescent blue-green crown and breast. Females are brown, and the species eats small animals and fruit.

• Tres Marias Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin insularis

  This mouse opossum is known only from Mexico's Islas Marías Archipelago. A camera study on María Madre Island recorded it twice, both times during evening or night hours.

• Cinereous Tinamou Crypturellus cinereus

  The Cinereous Tinamou is a dark, nearly unpatterned ground bird of the Amazonian lowlands. It is commonly recorded in floodplain and várzea forest.

• Sclater's Guenon Cercopithecus sclateri

  Sclater's guenon is a small monkey known for its complex facial pattern and long tail. It occurs in floodplain forests between the Niger and Cross rivers in southeastern Nigeria.

• Andean Lapwing Vanellus resplendens

  The Andean Lapwing walks through high Andean grasslands and wet open ground to feed. Pairs defend territories and call loudly.

• Eastern Forest Hedgehog Mesechinus orientalis

  This hedgehog was described from eastern China in 2023. Its short spines have bands of white, black, and pale color.

• Bornean Leafbird Chloropsis kinabaluensis

  This leafbird inhabits mountain forests of Borneo. A 2003 taxonomic review treated Chloropsis kinabaluensis as a distinct species after it had long been included as a subspecies of C. cochinchinensis.

• Yellow-footed rock-wallaby Petrogale xanthopus

  A rock-dwelling wallaby of dry regions in Australia.