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• Red-naped Bushshrike Laniarius ruficeps

  

  This bushshrike inhabits dry lowland scrub. Its underparts are whitish and its hindcrown and nape are chestnut; it searches for insects low in bushes and on the ground.

• Little Long-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis dolichura

  

  This small marsupial has a tail longer than its body. It lives in two separated parts of southwestern Australia, in dry woodland and shrubland.

• Multicolored Tanager Chlorochrysa nitidissima

  

  This Colombian endemic lives in humid mountain forest. The bird pictured in the guide has a yellow head, green back, blue-green wings and belly, and an orange throat.

• Ashy Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros cineraceus

  

  A small leaf-nosed bat. In records from southern China its back is buff-brown to grey, with a paler underside.

• Schwartz's Antthrush Chamaeza turdina

  

  Willis's paper treats the Colombian and Venezuelan population as Chamaeza turdina. Its appearance is described for that population, while a separate species account records ground-foraging for invertebrates in forest.

• Mexican Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys irroratus

  

  The Mexican spiny pocket mouse is currently placed in Heteromys. It has coarse grey-brown fur and cheek pouches, and searches for seeds at night, carrying them to burrows.

• Saltmarsh Sparrow Ammospiza caudacuta

  The Saltmarsh Sparrow lives in coastal salt marshes in the United States. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service page uses the older name Ammodramus caudacutus; this entry retains the pool's scientific name, Ammospiza caudacuta.

• Ka'apor Capuchin Cebus kaapori

  It has cream-colored cheeks and shoulders, a dark crown, and a tail that helps it move among branches. A dry-season study in Pará found fruit to be its main food.

• Grey-and-gold Warbler Myiothlypis fraseri

  A wood-warbler of humid forest in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It searches for food in shrubs and dense lower vegetation.

• Underwood's Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi

  Underwood's bonneted bat ranges from the southwestern United States through western Mexico to Central America. Confirmed information about its roosts is limited.

• Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus thoracicus

  The male has a black head with a small red crown patch and a yellowish-green back. In peat-swamp and heath forests, at edges, and in coastal vegetation, it eats fruit, insects, and spiders.

• Bokhara Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus bocharicus

  The Bokhara horseshoe bat lives in arid Central Asian foothills and uses caves and mines as roosts.

• Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris

  This shrike lives in open country in southern Africa. It watches from branches or fences and catches insects and small mammals.

• Western Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) megalotis

  The western harvest mouse is a small rodent of western North America, often recognized by a dark stripe along its back.

• Henderson Reed Warbler Acrocephalus taiti

  The Henderson Reed Warbler is found only on Henderson Island. A field study recorded it foraging in varied places and noted individual variation in patches of white plumage.

• Ryukyu Mouse Mus (Mus) caroli

  The Ryukyu mouse has a dark grey back and pale underside. A Taiwan museum record describes it in lowland fields, feeding on seeds and plant roots.

• White-eared Puffbird Nystalus chacuru

  The White-eared Puffbird occurs in forest and woodland clearings and dry savanna in South America. It has a brown back and crown, a black-and-white-speckled breast, a black-edged white ear patch, and a red hooked bill with a black tip. It eats insects and other invertebrates.

• Asian parti-colored bat Vespertilio sinensis

  A bat whose dark brown fur has white tips, giving it a frosted appearance.

• Pallas's Sandgrouse Syrrhaptes paradoxus

  Pallas's Sandgrouse lives in dry grasslands of Central Asia. Males and females have different plumage, and flocks fly to water and feed on seeds.

• Meerkat Suricata suricatta

  A meerkat is a mongoose relative from dry parts of southern Africa. It uses burrows and lives in groups.

• Reeves's Pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii

  A pheasant endemic to China, living in evergreen forest and open woodland. It scratches leaf litter for seeds, berries, leaves, and invertebrates.

• Cape Fox Vulpes chama

  A small fox of southern Africa and the smallest member of the dog family.

• Sennar Penduline Tit Anthoscopus punctifrons

  The Sennar Penduline Tit is a tiny bird with an olive-grey back and a black-speckled forehead. It forages in small parties in acacia canopies across semi-desert parts of the Sahel.

• African Golden Cat Caracal aurata

  A medium-sized wild cat of the moist forests of equatorial Africa.