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• Peleng Island Xanthurus Rat Rattus pelurus

  

  The Peleng Island Xanthurus Rat has long, coarse gray-brown fur with black guard hairs and soft spines, and a gray underside. At the time of publication, HMW knew it only from the type series.

• Rosy-patched Bushshrike Telophorus cruentus

  The Rosy-patched Bushshrike is about 22–24 cm long. It is active by day in dry thorn scrub and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• Fulvous Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) fulvescens

  This small mouse lives in grassland and riparian habitats and is active at night. Its tail is differently coloured above and below, while its coat and diet vary by place and season.

• Correndera Pipit Anthus correndera

  The Correndera Pipit has a dark-streaked back and pale belly. It searches for insects in wet grassland near lakes and ponds.

• Cape Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus capensis

  Its fur is dark brown above and light gray underneath. It has a horseshoe-shaped nose leaf used in echolocation and large ears.

• White-naped Monarch Carterornis pileatus

  It occurs on Halmahera and Buru in moist lowland forest. Salvadori's description of a male from Halmahera records a black forehead, back, wings and tail against a white crown, pale eye-area patches, white cheeks, chest and belly. A field report recorded small groups in logged forest and forest edges.

• Preuss's Monkey Allochrocebus preussi

  Preuss's monkey is a forest primate marked by a silvery-white neck collar and reddish-brown back. It is active by day and forages for fruit and young shoots in groups.

• Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita

  A small yellow-olive warbler that eats insects. In Britain and Ireland it breeds in deciduous woodland, scrub, and similar habitats.

• Black-tailed Marmoset Mico melanurus

  The black-tailed marmoset is a small monkey with a conspicuously dark tail. It eats tree gum and fruit and lives in forests of west-central Brazil and eastern Bolivia.

• Nyanza Swift Apus niansae

  A swift with dark wings and a pale throat that catches insects over eastern African highlands, cliffs, and towns.

• Hewitt's Red Rock Hare Pronolagus saundersiae

  This hare occurs in mountainous parts of South Africa and Lesotho. Its coat is thick and dense, brown above and pale rufous below; the feet and tail are darker red, while the head is grey-brown with grey-white cheeks.

• Elegant Quail Callipepla douglasii

  Males have a tawny crest and reddish wings. This quail lives in scrub and secondary vegetation in western Mexico, forming small flocks that break into pairs for breeding.

• Rock-dwelling Sheath-tailed Bat Paremballonura tiavato

  This small bat lives on Madagascar. Its dorsal fur is long and slightly shaggy, pale to medium grey-brown, and its ears are long with rounded tips.

• Chimango Caracara Milvago chimango

  Argentina's biodiversity record describes a brown caracara marked by a white patch at the wing tips. It feeds mainly on carrion and searches for food in open places and along roads.

• Linnaeus's Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Exulomarmosa) murina

  Linnaeus’s Mouse Opossum is a nocturnal marsupial with large dark eyes and a prehensile tail. It occurs in northern South America, prefers insects and also eats fruit.

• Band-tailed Manakin Pipra fasciicauda

  The Band-tailed Manakin forages in the forest understory of Amazonia. Males show black, red, and yellow plumage, while females are mainly olive green.

• Sika deer Cervus nippon

  The sika deer is native to East Asia, including Japan, and primarily inhabits forests.

• Sulawesi Masked Owl Tyto rosenbergii

  The Sulawesi Masked Owl is a nocturnal owl with a pale grey, heart-shaped facial disc edged in rufous. It is thought to hunt small animals over open farmland and forest edges.

• Buffy Saki Pithecia albicans

  The buffy saki occurs in Amazonas State in northern Brazil. It eats many fruits and can obtain seeds from fruits with hard coverings.

• Golden Parrotbill Suthora verreauxi

  The Golden Parrotbill is a small bird, about 11 cm long, with a distinctive head and neck. It uses bamboo patches in pairs or small groups and eats insect larvae, small beetles and seeds.

• Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis

  The Big Free-tailed Bat roosts in rock crevices and eats large moths. It has vertical grooves on its upper lip.

• Malabar Gray Hornbill Ocyceros griseus

  Male and female Malabar Gray Hornbills have different bill shapes. These gray hornbills mainly eat fruit in forests.

• Speckled Ground Squirrel Spermophilus suslicus

  The speckled ground squirrel occurs in open grasslands in eastern Poland. Its yellowish-brown coat is flecked with white, and it digs underground burrows with strong forefeet.

• Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Polioptila melanura

  The Black-tailed Gnatcatcher is a small blue-gray bird of dry scrub in the southwestern United States and Mexico. Breeding males grow a black cap, and both parents take part in raising their young.