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• Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura

  

  This small warbler occurs in West Africa and forages for insects in dry savanna and scrub. The account places it in the canopy and bushes.

• Eastern Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens orion

  This broad-nosed bat occurs in eastern Australia. Its back is dark brown and the underside is duller and paler. Records come from wet forests and more open woodland.

• Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei

  A gull with a slender bill and legs and a low forehead.

• Black Flying-fox Pteropus alecto

  The black flying-fox is a large fruit bat found in northern and eastern Australia. Its Japanese name also appears in the Japanese Mammalogical Society’s standard mammal-name list.

• Lineated Barbet Psilopogon lineatus

  The Lineated Barbet eats fruit and excavates nesting holes in dead trees. In Singapore, an introduced population occurs in parks and along woodland edges.

• Colombian Small-eared Shrew Cryptotis colombianus

  This shrew is recorded in the central Colombian Andes. It has a dark-brown back, a short tail, tiny eyes and ears, and records in moist montane cloud forest.

• Hair-crested Drongo Dicrurus hottentottus

  The Hair-crested Drongo has black plumage, red irises and a forked tail.

• Eastern Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus megaphyllus

  The Eastern Horseshoe Bat has a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf and roosts in caves and mines. The museum account notes that northern and southern populations may be different species.

• White-browed Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus schisticeps

  The White-browed Scimitar Babbler is a medium-sized bird with a slightly curved yellow bill, a white eyebrow, and a clean white breast.

• Peters's Sheath-tailed Bat Paremballonura atrata

  This sheath-tailed bat occurs in Madagascar. It has long, shaggy, brownish-black fur and rounded ears, and a Marojejy survey also recorded it in open habitats.

• Madagascar Owl Asio madagascariensis

  The Madagascar Owl is a nocturnal owl found only on Madagascar. It rests in dense vegetation by day and hunts in forests and nearby open areas at night.

• Red kangaroo Osphranter rufus

  A kangaroo of dry inland grasslands and other habitats in Australia. It hops on powerful hind legs and uses its long tail for balance.

• Grey-throated Ibon Lophozosterops javanicus

  This white-eye relative inhabits the mountains of Java and Bali, with records up to about 1,500 m.

• Columbia Plateau Pocket Mouse Perognathus parvus

  The Columbia Plateau pocket mouse is a small North American rodent that carries seeds in fur-lined cheek pouches. Its back is pinkish buff with a dark overlay, and its tail is long and bicolored.

• Burmese Bush Lark Plocealauda microptera

  A lark of open grassland and fallow fields in central Myanmar. It forages in open country and is also recorded perching on trees and wires.

• Mottle-faced Tamarin Tamarinus inustus

  This tamarin was recorded in flooded forest during fieldwork in Brazil’s Amanã Reserve. The survey reported 11 new localities.

• 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.

• Allen's Jackrabbit Lepus alleni

  This large hare is notable for its big ears and occurs in dry areas of southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico.

• Red-throated Sunbird Anthreptes rhodolaemus

  Male Red-throated Sunbirds show glossy green and violet plumage, while females are subdued olive. They forage for flowers and small prey in forest canopies.

• Black-capped Marmot Marmota (Marmota) camtschatica

  The black-capped marmot burrows and lives in family groups in cold mountains and tundra, spending much of the year hibernating.

• Andean Coot Fulica ardesiaca

  A coot of high Andean lakes and ponds. Bill and frontal-shield colors vary by region, and birds feed on open water, often in flocks.

• Buffoon Lemniscomys Lemniscomys macculus

  This striped grass mouse was common at a savanna study site in Ethiopia. Broken pale stripes run along its flanks.

• Spectacled Petrel Procellaria conspicillata

  The Spectacled Petrel is dark, with white markings around its eyes, and ranges over the South Atlantic. Its only known breeding site is Inaccessible Island in the Tristan da Cunha group.

• Jamaican Fig-eating Bat Ariteus flavescens

  This bat is endemic to Jamaica. It has a shortened snout and white shoulder spots, occurs widely in forests, and roosts in trees.