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• Scaly-breasted Thrasher Allenia fusca

  

  The Scaly-breasted Thrasher occurs in the Lesser Antilles. It has dark gray-brown upperparts, a pale wingbar, a scaly underside, and white tail tips. It forages at different heights in trees.

• 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.

• Garden Warbler Sylvia borin

  The Garden Warbler breeds in Europe and migrates south of the Sahara for winter. Its upperparts are brown and its underside is pale.

• Hill's Sheath-tailed Bat Taphozous (Taphozous) hilli

  Hill's Sheath-tailed Bat occurs in semiarid parts of northwestern Australia and roosts in caves and old mine workings. Males have a throat pouch; females retain only a slight vestige.

• Gouldian finch Erythrura gouldiae

  A small bird with a green back, purple breast and yellow belly.

• Celebes Dwarf Squirrel Prosciurillus murinus

  This small squirrel lives in Sulawesi's forests. It has a dark-brown back, a gray belly, and a pale ring around each eye; it also uses tree trunks and the ground.

• Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides

  A thrush of open habitats in western North America, it catches insects from a perch or in the air. The male is blue.

• Paraguayan Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys macrurus

  This small opossum is known from eastern Paraguay and adjacent central-western Brazil. Its mid-back is darker, becoming paler toward the flanks and belly.

• Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki

  The Red-throated Bee-eater nests in earthen banks near rivers and catches flying insects in social groups.

• Seal's Sportive Lemur Lepilemur seali

  Seal's sportive lemur has thick, long fur and a pale collar at the neck. It is nocturnal and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Eastern Barn Owl Tyto javanica

  This nocturnal owl lives in open country in eastern Australia. Its white heart-shaped face and sandy plumage with black spots help identify it. At night it searches for small animals on the ground.

• Berg's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys bergi

  Berg’s tuco-tuco is a subterranean rodent of Argentina’s Dry Chaco. Besides northwestern Córdoba, one female was recorded in Salavina Department, Santiago del Estero, and identified as this species using genetic and morphological evidence.

• 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.

• Grizzled Leaf Monkey Presbytis comata

  The grizzled leaf monkey's boundary with a close relative remains uncertain, with coat color varying by region. It lives in western Java's forests, is active in trees by day, and feeds mainly on leaves.

• White-bellied Storm Petrel Fregetta grallaria

  The White-bellied Storm Petrel is a small seabird of the open ocean. It glides low over the sea and breeds on the Kermadec Islands and Lord Howe Island in the New Zealand region.

• Oriental Basin Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys fulvescens

  This pocket gopher is recorded in central Mexico. Surveys found it in second-growth vegetation or scrub depending on the site, and reported a preference for flat, sandy ground with few rocks.

• Speckled Mourner Laniocera rufescens

  This forest bird is reddish brown with fine markings. It perches within humid forest or second growth and may be seen alone.

• American Marten Martes americana

  A member of the weasel family found in forests of Alaska, Canada and the northern United States.

• Golden-throated Barbet Psilopogon franklinii

  The Golden-throated Barbet has a green body, golden throat, and red forehead. It feeds on fruit, including figs, in mountain forests.

• Ash-colored Oldfield Mouse Thomasomys cinereus

  This mouse has soft, dense gray fur and is active on the ground at night. The account notes that the name may cover a species complex.

• Little Inca Finch Incaspiza watkinsi

  This small bird lives in the lower Marañón region of northern Peru. It has a gray head and breast, a brownish back, and a pale belly, and searches near the ground along woodland edges and in scrub.

• Hairy-eared Dwarf Lemur Allocebus trichotis

  The hairy-eared dwarf lemur is a nocturnal small lemur recorded in northeastern Madagascar. Tufts on its ears and a leaf nest in a tree hollow are distinctive features.

• Feline Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles insignis

  The Feline Owlet-nightjar lives in New Guinea’s montane evergreen rainforests and eats beetles and other insects. Its fluffy rufous-to-brown plumage has two white head stripes and white bars on the tail.

• Black Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus rufoniger

  The black-spotted cuscus is an arboreal marsupial with black-and-red fur and different back patterns in males and females. It occurs in forests of northern New Guinea.