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• Gray-headed Lemur Eulemur cinereiceps

  

  This lemur lives in forests of southeastern Madagascar. Males and females differ in coat color, and groups forage in trees for fruit and other foods.

• Sumatran Trogon Apalharpactes mackloti

  This trogon lives in montane forest on Sumatra. The male has metallic green and blue plumage, a yellow throat, and a red bill; females are similarly colored.

• Golden Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus rosalia

  The golden lion tamarin is a small monkey recognized by its golden mane framing the face. It searches for fruit and insects in the humid forests of southeastern Brazil.

• Rufous-breasted Antthrush Formicarius rufipectus

  This chunky, short-tailed bird walks on the forest floor to forage. Its underparts are rufous, and it sometimes gathers near army-ant swarms.

• Painted Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys pictus

  The painted spiny pocket mouse ranges from Mexico to northwestern Guatemala. It has a reddish-brown back, white underside, and spiny coat, and stores seeds in caches.

• Ochre-breasted Catbird Ailuroedus stonii

  The Hides Ridge field guide places the Ochre-breasted Catbird in lowland forest in southern New Guinea and describes foraging in lower layers and sometimes on the ground. Within its study area, it lists the bird only at Arakubi.

• Walston's Tube-nosed Bat Murina walstoni

  This bat has its type locality in northeastern Cambodia, with additional specimen records from Vietnam. Its back is warm brown and its underside is white; the holotype was trapped on a dry streambed in semievergreen forest.

• Scarlet-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus bernsteinii

  This 28–29 cm dove is active by day and eats fruit in forests and hills on Halmahera.

• Mandarin Vole Lasiopodomys mandarinus

  The Mandarin vole is a vole that lives in underground tunnels and occurs in northeastern and central China and other parts of East Asia.

• Bokikokiko Acrocephalus aequinoctialis

  This Pacific island reed warbler was studied on Kiritimati, where it was more often found in places with taller Heliotropium and Scaevola plants.

• Side-striped Jackal Lupulella adustus

  A slender jackal of western, central and southern Africa that also eats fruit and insects.

• Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen

  The Australian Magpie is a medium-sized black-and-white bird found across Australia. Its back pattern varies by sex and region.

• Big Crested Mastiff Bat Promops centralis

  This mastiff bat of the Americas flies fast on long wings. It uses habitats from forests to open country and roosts in tree hollows or buildings.

• Black-throated Bobwhite Colinus nigrogularis

  This ground-dwelling quail has a conspicuous black throat and white facial lines in the adult male. It rests in small groups among grass.

• New Guinea Quoll Dasyurus albopunctatus

  The New Guinea quoll is a medium-sized carnivorous marsupial from New Guinea's forests. It can climb, and one field account reports a body mass of about 500–1,000 g.

• New Caledonian Storm Petrel Fregetta lineata

  The New Caledonian Storm Petrel has blackish-brown upperparts, a white rump and a white belly streaked with black. Breeding has been confirmed in New Caledonia.

• Thick-tailed Pygmy Jerboa Salpingotus (Anguistodontus) crassicauda

  This small jerboa has a tail longer than its body and three-toed hind feet. It digs long burrows in sand dunes.

• Cape Barren Goose Cereopsis novaehollandiae

  The Cape Barren Goose is a heavy gray goose with a yellow-green cere. It uses coastal islands and grasslands in southern Australia and grazes on vegetation.

• Nepal Gray Langur Semnopithecus schistaceus

  The Nepal gray langur lives in Himalayan forests and rocky areas. Its back and limbs are dark gray, its belly is creamy white, and the bare skin of its face, hands, and feet is black.

• Black-crowned Antpitta Pittasoma michleri

  This bird searches for food by hopping on the forest floor. The range and ecology here are limited to the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica.

• Indian Gray Mongoose Urva edwardsii

  A mongoose of South Asia and Arabia, recognized by its silver-gray speckled coat and white-tipped tail.

• Rufous-headed Tailorbird Phyllergates heterolaemus

  This tailorbird was described from a specimen collected on Mount Apo, Mindanao. The original account describes one adult of undetermined sex and notes that it was found among bushes.

• Saõ Tomé Leaf-nosed Bat Macronycteris thomensis

  The São Tomé Leaf-nosed Bat is endemic to São Tomé Island. It is a large bat, with a record of several hundred individuals at an underground roost.

• Bendire's Thrasher Toxostoma bendirei

  This slender thrasher lives in dry areas of the southwestern United States and Mexico. It has sandy-brown plumage and a relatively short, curved bill, and searches for prey on the ground.