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• Ruby-throated Myzomela Myzomela eques

  

  The Ruby-throated Myzomela lives in forests on New Guinea and nearby islands. Males have an iridescent red throat patch, and the species mainly feeds on nectar.

• Black Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus chrysopygus

  

  The black lion tamarin is a small monkey of forests in São Paulo state, Brazil. Its mostly black coat has golden fur on the rump and at the base of the tail.

• Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi

  

  The cinnamon-breasted bunting is a bunting that searches for seeds and insects on rocky hills and mountain slopes.

• Greater Hog Badger Arctonyx collaris

  

  The greater hog badger has a long, projecting snout and strong claws for digging.

• Grey-crowned Greenbul Xanthomixis cinereiceps

  

  It lives in eastern Madagascar's middle- and high-elevation rainforest. It forages along mossy branches in the mid-story and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Small Five-toed Jerboa Allactaga (Allactaga) elater

  

  This jerboa lives in dry areas of Turkey and western Asia. It has a sandy back, white underside, and black tail tip, and moves by hopping on long hind legs at night.

• Black-browed Tit Aegithalos bonvaloti

  A 2013 Indian BIRDS paper reports photographs of this tit near Namti and Walong in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. The observed group held six to seven birds and used an open area with ferns and scattered pines.

• Atlantic Forest Nectomys Nectomys squamipes

  The 2015 species account records this rodent in eastern Brazil’s Atlantic Forest region and cites primary forest near streams as habitat.

• Slate-colored Solitaire Myadestes unicolor

  A gray-plumaged thrush of Central America. It keeps quietly to the understory of cloud forest and oak-pine woodland.

• Black Bearded Saki Chiropotes satanas

  The black bearded saki lives in forests of eastern Amazonian Brazil. Its dark coat and beard are distinctive, and it often eats fruit and seeds.

• Loveridge's Sunbird Cinnyris loveridgei

  Loveridge’s Sunbird is restricted to the mountains of Tanzania. Males have a golden-green head, a narrow violet breast band, and an orange-red breast; they visit flowers in montane forest.

• Peters's Sheath-tailed Bat Paremballonura atrata

  This sheath-tailed bat occurs in Madagascar. It has long, shaggy, brownish-black fur and rounded ears, and a Marojejy survey also recorded it in open habitats.

• Indian Nuthatch Sitta castanea

  The Indian Nuthatch has a gray back and chestnut underparts and lives in forests and woodland across parts of India. It is sometimes seen in pairs or family groups.

• Black-and-rufous sengi Rhynchocyon petersi

  This small mammal probes leaf litter with its long snout and eats insects. Its reddish and black fur and white eye-rings are striking.

• Green-headed Oriole Oriolus chlorocephalus

  The Green-headed Oriole has green across its head, throat, upper breast, and lower mantle. A forest survey in Tanzania often recorded pairs feeding on fruit high in the trees.

• Darwin's Fox Lycalopex fulvipes

  Darwin's fox is a small fox of southern Chilean forests. Its dark coat and reddish backs of the ears are distinctive; separate populations occur on Chiloé Island and the mainland.

• Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia

  This bird has a grey-brown back and a paler belly. It is active at dusk and at night, singing loudly from waterside thickets.

• Brown's Pademelon Thylogale browni

  This small-to-medium wallaby is native to northern and eastern New Guinea, where it occurs in forest and grassland. Populations thought to have been introduced to islands such as New Ireland have contracted.

• Purple-crowned Fairywren Malurus coronatus

  In breeding plumage, the male of the western subspecies has a purple crown and blue tail. The subspecies lives in thick river-edge vegetation from the Victoria River catchment to the northern Kimberley.

• Desert Hare Lepus tibetanus

  The desert hare has sandy fur and long ears and feeds on plants in steppe, desert and semi-desert habitats.

• Philippine Pied Fantail Rhipidura nigritorquis

  This fantail is endemic to the Philippines. It searches for insects in lowland woodland, coastal vegetation, and green spaces in towns.

• 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.

• Chestnut Forest Crake Rallicula rubra

  This rail searches the forest floor for invertebrates in the highlands of New Guinea.

• Yucatan Yellow Bat Rhogeessa aenea

  This small bat is recorded mainly in the lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula. A Mexican biodiversity profile describes sex-related ear features and records from forests, farmland, and built-up places.