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• Grey-chinned Minivet Pericrocotus solaris

  

  The Grey-chinned Minivet differs in its red or yellow plumage by sex. In Hong Kong it is recorded almost exclusively in closed-canopy woodland, and some birds appear to move to lower areas in winter.

• Four-striped Ground Squirrel Lariscus hosei

  

  The Four-striped Ground Squirrel has four black stripes on its back and orange underparts. It lives on Borneo and is active by day on the forest floor.

• Sulawesi Myna Basilornis celebensis

  

  The Sulawesi Myna is a starling with a rounded crest and pale patches on its glossy black plumage. It occurs on Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands.

• Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisii

  

  A meat-eating marsupial of Tasmania, with a stocky body, a broad head and mostly black fur.

• Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis

  

  The Saddle-billed Stork is a large African stork of wetlands. It catches fish and small animals in shallow water.

• Fawn-colored Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros cervinus

  

  The Queensland species profile places this bat in the north of the state and describes it hunting insects at night and roosting in caves or mines.

• Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum

  A fox-brown bird with dark streaks, bright yellow eyes, and a long bill.

• Spiny Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus spinatus

  The spiny pocket mouse has stiff, spine-like hairs on its rump and sides. It lives in rocky desert scrub, is nocturnal, and stores seeds.

• Dusky Lark Pinarocorys nigricans

  This lark migrates from breeding areas in central Africa to southern Africa. It forages on the ground in open savanna and woodland, eating insects and some seeds.

• Greater Bonneted Bat Eumops perotis

  The greater bonneted bat is the largest molossid bat in North America. Its long ears meet above the head, and it launches from cliffs before hunting insects at night.

• Grey Shrikethrush Colluricincla harmonica

  The Grey Shrikethrush varies in color across its range, from gray to brown. It searches for food on the ground and on tree trunks and branches in Australian forests and woodlands.

• Beddome's Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus beddomei

  Beddome's woolly horseshoe bat is known from South Asia, and a 2010 paper added a specimen from Thailand. The Thai record is a single animal and may not represent the usual population there.

• Tawny Grassbird Megalurus timoriensis

  The Tawny Grassbird hides among grasses and shrubs. This entry presents behaviour recorded by a local field guide on Cebu in the Philippines.

• Olive Grass Mouse Abrothrix olivaceus

  This small rodent varies in color across its range, from dark or olive brown to gray or pale ochre. It is partly active by day, builds grass nests, and climbs well.

• Rock Tapaculo Scytalopus petrophilus

  This tapaculo occurs in the mountains of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. Its 2010 description reports habitat ranging from open rocky shrubland to forest on steep slopes.

• Littledale's Whistling Rat Parotomys littledalei

  A rodent of arid southern Africa. It feeds on fresh leaves and other green plants, and builds connected burrows beneath shrubs.

• White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus

  The White-winged Becard shows regional variation in male plumage across Central and South America. It uses forest edges and second growth, alone or in pairs, and moves through middle tree levels.

• Grey Long-eared Bat Plecotus austriacus

  The grey long-eared bat has very long ears and catches moths and other prey in flight over open grassland.

• Piapiac Ptilostomus afer

  This corvid has a long graduated tail and a stout, curved bill. Its black plumage has a blue-purple sheen, and its eyes are purple.

• Neotropical River Otter Lontra longicaudis

  An otter of South America and Trinidad, using rivers, lakes and their banks.

• Black Berrypecker Melanocharis nigra

  The Black Berrypecker lives in forests on New Guinea. Adult males are glossy blue-black, while females are olive-colored. It eats small berries as well as insects and spiders.

• Chuuk Flying Fox Pteropus pelagicus

  The Chuuk flying fox lives in the Caroline Islands of Micronesia. The study treats the Mortlock population and the populations on Chuuk Lagoon and Namonuito as two subspecies of one species.

• Pale-headed Munia Lonchura pallida

  The Pale-headed Munia has a pale head that contrasts with its darker body. It occurs in the lowlands of eastern Indonesia, including dry scrub, grassland, marshes, and farmland.

• Yucatán Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin gaumeri

  The Yucatán Gray Mouse Opossum is a small opossum of the Yucatán Peninsula. Its original description gives a muted grayish-brown back and pale cream belly and cheeks. Specimens have also been collected in sub-evergreen forest in Quintana Roo.