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• Blue-eyed Cockatoo Cacatua ophthalmica

  

  A large white cockatoo of lowland forest on New Britain.

• Common Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus maculatus

  The common spotted cuscus is a marsupial with a long tail that can grip branches. It lives in lowland tropical forest in New Guinea and also in mangroves in northeastern Australia, feeding mainly on leaves.

• Hartlaub's Turaco Tauraco hartlaubi

  Hartlaub's Turaco is a green bird of the East African highlands. It moves by hopping through the canopy and making short flights between trees.

• Red-necked Pademelon Thylogale thetis

  This short-tailed wallaby is marked by reddish fur on its neck and shoulders. It spends the day in forest and emerges near dusk to feed on plants.

• Slender Antbird Rhopornis ardesiacus

  This antbird is recorded in Brazil's Bahia and Minas Gerais states. In the paper, the pale-purple bare skin around the eye was a narrow ring on the adults observed. The paper spells the scientific name Rhopornis ardesiaca.

• De Brazza’s monkey Cercopithecus neglectus

  An African monkey with a white beard that lives in forests near rivers.

• Pollen's Vanga Xenopirostris polleni

  This vanga is endemic to humid evergreen forest in eastern Madagascar. It is recorded from sea level to 2,000 m, though its distribution is patchy.

• Thomas's Mastiff Bat Molossus currentium

  This molossid bat lives in central and southern South America.

• Andean Potoo Nyctibius maculosus

  Fine gray, brown, and black markings and yellow eyes stand out on this nocturnal bird of Andean cloud forest.

• Dry Chaco Fat-tailed Opossum Thylamys pulchellus

  This small opossum is recorded in northern Argentina. Argentina’s 2019 assessment lists localities across several provinces, chiefly in the Chaco region.

• 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.

• Irrawaddy Dolphin Orcaella brevirostris

  This dolphin has no beak and a rounded, bulging forehead. It uses coastal, muddy, brackish river mouths and deltas; river populations are also recorded.

• Chusquea Tapaculo Scytalopus parkeri

  The Chusquea Tapaculo is associated with dense stands of Chusquea bamboo. Its original description covered a population studied at 2,250–3,150 m in southeastern Ecuador.

• Humboldt's Squirrel Monkey Saimiri cassiquiarensis

  This squirrel monkey occurs in the Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. The population treated as the nominate subspecies has a reddish-tan back, golden-yellow bases to the crown hairs, and orange forearms. Brazilian records include seasonally flooded, riparian, and secondary forests.

• Short-tailed Paradigalla Paradigalla brevicauda

  The Short-tailed Paradigalla is a bird-of-paradise from New Guinea's mountain forests. It has a stocky black body and bright yellow bare skin on the forehead and face.

• São Tomé Shrew Crocidura thomensis

  The São Tomé shrew is known only from São Tomé Island. It has a long snout and large ears, and field observers have seen it feeding in wet places.

• Wattled Jacana Jacana jacana

  The Wattled Jacana is a small wading bird that walks over floating vegetation on long, thin toes.

• Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel Callospermophilus saturatus

  This ground squirrel lives in the Cascade Mountains. It has a white-striped back and russet shoulders, and the current taxonomy places it in Callospermophilus.

• Grey-sided Flowerpecker Dicaeum celebicum

  Males have a black head and upperparts with a purple sheen, a white throat, and a red patch on the lower throat and breast. Females are gray-brown. It feeds on fruit and small animals in the forest canopy.

• Alaotran gentle lemur Hapalemur alaotrensis

  The Alaotran gentle lemur is a small lemur with a long tail and dense fur. It lives only in the reed and papyrus wetlands around Lake Alaotra in Madagascar.

• Cape Shoveler Spatula smithii

  The Cape Shoveler is a duck of shallow wetlands in southern Africa. Males and females differ in plumage and in the color of their eyes and legs.

• Mongolian Five-toed Jerboa Allactaga (Orientallactaga) sibirica

  This jerboa is recorded in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and other parts of Asia. A specialist mammal account places it in dry steppe, semi-desert, and desert habitats. Coat colors and tail markings vary across its range, and genetic evidence may indicate that the broad current taxon includes more than one unnamed species.

• Violet-necked Lory Eos squamata

  This lory inhabits islands of eastern Indonesia. Purple neck bands and red wings are prominent, though plumage varies among subspecies. It feeds on nectar, pollen, and fruit, usually in pairs or small groups.

• Sagebrush Vole Lemmiscus curtatus

  The sagebrush vole lives in western North America among sagebrush and bunchgrasses. It eats flowers and moist vegetation and carries food into its burrow.