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• Black-girdled Barbet Capito dayi

  

  A small barbet of lowland forest in central Amazonian Brazil and eastern Bolivia. The male’s red crown and black band across the white underside are distinctive.

• Small-toothed Palm Civet Arctogalidia trivirgata

  The small-toothed palm civet is a forest-dwelling member of the civet family, often recognized by three dark stripes along its back.

• Northern Fantail Rhipidura rufiventris

  The Northern Fantail searches for insects in forests and along forest edges in northern Australia. A regional field guide describes a gray bird with a fine pale eyebrow and white throat, and notes that its tail is less fanned than that of other fantails.

• Eastern Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) dimidiatus

  Its back is covered with spine-like hairs, and it has a white underside and a white spot below each eye. Its range extends from Sinai across the Arabian Peninsula to southern Pakistan.

• Yellow-tufted Honeyeater Lichenostomus melanops

  This honeyeater lives in eucalypt forests and open woodland of eastern Australia. Its black face and yellow ear tufts stand out; it feeds on nectar and insects from leaves and bark.

• Heller's Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus helleri

  This broad-nosed bat is recorded from Mexico through Central America to northern South America west of the Andes. A 2010 revision separated species from the older broad P. helleri complex.

• Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis

  The Bengal Florican lives in grasslands and has strongly different adult male and female plumage.

• Hispaniolan Hutia Plagiodontia aedium

  The Hispaniolan hutia is a rodent found only on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Its dark-brown back, paler underside, and nearly hairless tail are useful clues.

• Black-backed Butcherbird Cracticus mentalis

  The Black-backed Butcherbird is a medium-sized, black-and-white butcherbird with a white throat. It occurs in southeastern New Guinea and northern Australia.

• Rio Mayo Titi Plecturocebus oenanthe

  This titi monkey is endemic to the San Martín region of Peru. Pale fur around the face is a characteristic feature, though it is faint in some individuals.

• Yucatan Vireo Vireo magister

  This vireo occurs on the Yucatan Peninsula and nearby islands. It has a white eyebrow and dark eye-stripe and feeds in lowland forest and mangroves.

• Black lechwe Kobus smithemani

  Black lechwe are smaller and darker than other lechwe, and males have shorter horns. Along Lake Bangweulu in Zambia, they move seasonally as water levels change.

• Maleo Macrocephalon maleo

  The Maleo lives in Sulawesi forests. Adults have a hard black knob on the head, and eggs are buried in sand warmed by geothermal heat.

• Insular Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus keyensis

  This horseshoe bat varies in color among islands and subspecies. On Timor, subspecies parvus has a cinnamon-brown back and fawn underside. Four subspecies are recorded across the Moluccas and Lesser Sundas.

• Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens

  This small, round-bodied bird has a very short tail and a slightly curved, relatively long bill. Its back is grey-brown, while the belly and flanks are cinnamon-buff.

• Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus

  The grey-headed flying-fox is a large fruit bat of eastern Australia. It feeds on flowers and fruit and forms large roosts in trees.

• Long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus

  A tiny bird with a long tail that searches for food on fine branches.

• Assam Rabbit Caprolagus hispidus

  The Assam rabbit is a hare with short, broad ears and a coarse outer coat. It feeds on grass roots and shoots in tall-grass country.

• Galapagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus

  The Galapagos Penguin is a small penguin found only on the Galapagos Islands. It lives and breeds there year-round in the tropics.

• Lesser Dog-like Bat Peropteryx (Peropteryx) macrotis

  The lesser dog-like bat is a small bat with long ears and a pouch-like structure on the wing. It flies at night and eats small beetles, flies, and other insects.

• Huon Bowerbird Amblyornis germanus

  This bird lives in montane forest on the Huon Peninsula. Males have an orange crest and decorate stick bowers with colored objects; females lack the orange crest.

• Black-mantled Tamarin Leontocebus nigricollis

  This entry covers the nominate subspecies of the black-mantled tamarin. It inhabits humid tropical forest and edges; its described features include a black mantle, bare ears, and a gray-white muzzle.

• Cream-throated White-eye Zosterops atriceps

  The Cream-throated White-eye occurs in Indonesia's North Maluku islands. A 2010 survey recorded it on Obi, where the observers heard it often but saw it only occasionally.

• Hoary Fox Lycalopex vetulus

  The hoary fox is a small fox of open landscapes in central and eastern Brazil, with gray fur and a dark stripe along its back and tail.