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• Purple-rumped Sunbird Leptocoma zeylonica

  

  This sunbird has different plumage in males and females. It visits flowers for nectar and also occurs in well-wooded gardens and open forest in Sri Lanka.

• Mount Topapu Squirrel Prosciurillus topapuensis

  

  This squirrel occurs in central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Records span tropical lowland evergreen to upper montane forest at 350–2,800 m. It is often found high in primary-forest crowns or woody vines, but has also been observed on the ground where the canopy is broken.

• Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti

  

  The Algerian Nuthatch is a small bird endemic to mountain forests in northeastern Algeria. Recent breeding research has monitored nests in several forests.

• Gray Four-eyed Opossum Philander opossum

  

  At Paracou in French Guiana, most adult and subadult specimens had a grizzled-gray back contrasting with a blackish head. The 2001 field report records animals at night, on the ground and in trees.

• Mountain Oriole Oriolus percivali

  

  The Mountain Oriole lives in East African montane forest. Its head, neck, and upper breast are glossy black, with yellow and olive-green across the back and wings.

• Fat-tailed Gerbil Pachyuromys duprasi

  

  The fat-tailed gerbil has a round body and a short, thick, club-shaped tail. It lives in sandy areas with vegetation and digs burrows.

• Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe

  A Black Scrub Robin recorded in a Djibouti survey. Its sooty-black body and long, white-tipped tail are distinctive.

• Angolan Soft-furred Fruit Bat Lissonycteris angolensis

  Surveys around Mount Cameroon captured this fruit bat near fruiting trees, cultivated land and cave entrances. The current MDD species page uses the name Myonycteris angolensis.

• Rufous-crowned Emu-wren Stipiturus ruficeps

  This small bird lives in stony spinifex habitat in the southern deserts of Australia’s Northern Territory. It has a blue face and wispy tail, and flits between tussocks.

• South-eastern Pocket Gopher Geomys pinetis

  The southeastern pocket gopher spends much of its life underground in sandy soil, digging tunnels and eating roots and tubers.

• Visayan Blue Fantail Rhipidura samarensis

  A Philippine fantail recorded on Bohol, Leyte and Samar, where it occurs in moist lowland forest. Its head and upperparts are blue, with paler blue underparts.

• Ruddy Mongoose Urva smithii

  The ruddy mongoose is found in India and is marked by a dark, reddish coat and a black tail tip. It favors forests and is most active around dawn and dusk.

• Abbott's Booby Papasula abbotti

  Abbott’s Booby is a seabird that nests high in forest trees on Christmas Island and catches fish and squid at sea.

• Calamian Deer Axis calamianensis

  The Calamian deer occurs on the Calamian Islands of the Philippines. A specialist identification key describes it as lacking the distinct spotted pattern seen in the chital. It browses leaves by day and lives in small herds.

• Thick-billed Berrypecker Rhamphocharis crassirostris

  The Thick-billed Berrypecker is a berrypecker described from the Arfak Mountains of north-western New Guinea. The early description of the adult male records olive-green upperparts and pearly-grey underparts. The species account classifies it as a forest-dwelling fruit eater.

• Red-bellied Tamarin Tamarinus labiatus

  This tamarin has white moustache-like facial hairs and a rusty-red chest and belly. It is active by day in the middle canopy of Amazonian forests in Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia.

• Ceara Gnateater Conopophaga cearae

  The Ceara Gnateater is a small bird of northeastern Brazil. It was first described as a subspecies of Conopophaga lineata, then treated as a separate species following genetic research.

• Greater grison Galictis vittata

  A carnivore with a long, slender body and a pale band dividing its darker underside from its gray back. It hunts small animals near forests and wetlands.

• Buff-banded Tyrannulet Mecocerculus hellmayri

  This tyrannulet occurs on the eastern Andean slope in south-eastern Peru and Bolivia. It uses the canopy and subcanopy of humid mountain forest, alone, in pairs, or in mixed flocks.

• Zacatecan Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) zacatecae

  The Zacatecan harvest mouse has a reddish-brown back and a relatively long tail. In Jalisco, it is recorded in high temperate areas.

• Brown-headed Barbet Psilopogon zeylanicus

  This barbet has a brown head and green body and feeds on fruit and insects. It uses forests as well as orchards, parks, and other green spaces near people.

• Black Uakari Cacajao melanocephalus

  The black uakari has a bare black face and lives in forests along rivers in the northern Amazon. Its back color varies between subspecies.

• Chestnut-bellied Guan Penelope ochrogaster

  This large guan is about 67–75 cm long and feeds on fruit in Brazilian forests. A field paper describes three separated populations that remain in different parts of central Brazil.

• Philippine Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura alecto

  This insect-eating bat was recorded in a cave survey in the southern Philippines. Surveyed individuals averaged 76 mm in total length, with tails 31.5 mm long. They roosted in small hollows in partly lit caves.