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• Cabanis's Bunting Emberiza cabanisi

  

  Cabanis's Bunting occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Males have a dark crown, white eyebrow, and yellow underparts.

• Tolai hare Lepus tolai

  The tolai hare is a small hare with long ears and legs; it feeds on grasses and shrubs.

• Böhm's Spinetail Neafrapus boehmi

  This small swift has a very short tail and flies fast above African savannas and open woodland.

• Southern Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur meridionalis

  This small lemur was observed eating ground-level grasses in the bamboo-poor littoral forest of Mandena.

• Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri

  This entry follows the 2005 treatment of Batis erlangeri as a separate species. Males have a dark crown and back; females have a maroon breast-band.

• Douglas's Squirrel Tamiasciurus douglasii

  In conifer forests it eats seeds and fungi and stores food. It does not hibernate and remains active through the year.

• Verdin Auriparus flaviceps

  The Verdin is a tiny bird with a yellow head and grey body. It lives mainly among thorny shrubs in deserts of the southwestern United States and Mexico.

• Chacoan Mara Pediolagus salinicola

  A large rodent of the Chaco, it occurs in Paraguay, southern Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina, in dry scrub and woodland.

• White-tailed Warbler Poliolais lopezi

  This cisticolid lives in the forest understory of western equatorial Africa and also uses dense cover at forest edges and clearings.

• Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus

  A small whale with a bulging forehead and relatively short flippers, found in warm seas.

• Madagascan Nightjar Caprimulgus madagascariensis

  The Madagascan Nightjar is a nocturnal bird found on Madagascar and Aldabra in the Seychelles. It catches insects on the wing at night and rests on leaf litter by day.

• Meadow Jumping Mouse Zapus hudsonius

  The meadow jumping mouse is a small rodent with long hind feet and a long tail. It favors moist grassland and wetland edges, eats seeds, fruit, and insects, and hibernates in winter.

• Munchique Wood Wren Henicorhina negreti

  This small wood-wren was described from the Munchique massif in the Western Andes of Colombia. The paper reports it from a narrow band of very wet cloud forest where fog is nearly continuous.

• Colombian Speckled Tree-rat Pattonomys semivillosus

  The Colombian Speckled Tree-rat is recorded in northeastern Colombia. Its white muzzle contrasts with an almost black crown, and some back and hind-leg spines have white tips. In Colombian dry forest, it has been recorded using termite mounds as shelters.

• Bicolored Hawk Astur bicolor

  The Bicolored Hawk is a forest raptor of Central and South America. It ambushes prey from cover, and plumage varies across its range.

• Masked palm civet Paguma larvata

  A climbing civet that lives in forests and near human settlements.

• Yellow-mantled Whydah Euplectes macroura

  The Yellow-mantled Widowbird lives near wet grassland and swamps in Africa. It searches for seeds on the ground. Breeding-plumaged males display on the ground or on low vegetation; their black bodies carry yellow shoulder patches whose extent varies among subspecies.

• Australian Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus nudicaudatus

  This cuscus occurs in Cape York, Australia. It spends time in the canopy and has been seen wrapping palm fronds around its body to hide its fur.

• Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus

  The Chestnut-winged Cuckoo has a long tail, chestnut plumage, and a black crest. It breeds in temperate Eurasia and passes through or winters in Southeast Asia from autumn to spring.

• Spinifex Hopping Mouse Notomys alexis

  The spinifex hopping mouse lives in sandy areas from central Australia into the west. It is active at night, moves by hopping, and digs deep burrows in the sand.

• Scarlet-faced Liocichla Liocichla ripponi

  The Scarlet-faced Liocichla is resident from Myanmar through Thailand and Vietnam to southern China. It is olive overall, with red facial and wing patches, and uses dense hill-forest undergrowth.

• Chinese Red Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) erythrotis

  The Chinese red pika is a small pika found in the highlands of western China. It belongs to a closely related group associated with stony habitats.

• Somali Crombec Sylvietta isabellina

  This small bird lives in dry acacia scrub and steppe in eastern Africa. The consulted range summary places it in Ethiopia, Somalia and northern Kenya.

• Pallas's Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga soricina

  A bat that probes flowers with a long, extendable tongue. It visits flowers at night and eats nectar, pollen, fruit, insects, and other foods.