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• Eastern Roe Deer Capreolus pygargus

  

  The eastern roe deer lives across northern Asia and parts of central Asia. It was once treated as a subspecies of the western roe deer, but the account treats it as a distinct species.

• Mascarene Martin Phedina borbonica

  The Mascarene Martin is a small swallow about 15 cm long. It uses forests, mangroves and wetlands, catching insects in flight.

• 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.

• Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis

  A thrush that visits mountain forests north of Kyushu; females have browner flanks.

• Agricola’s Opossum Cryptonanus agricolai

  This is a small opossum. Ventral fur is unbanded white in most examined specimens, and little is known about its field ecology.

• Least Storm Petrel Hydrobates microsoma

  About sparrow-sized, this seabird is entirely black with a short wedge-shaped tail. It flutters low over the sea to pick food from the surface and nests in colonies on rocky islands off western Mexico.

• Napo Saki Pithecia napensis

  The Napo saki is a saki monkey of northwestern South American forests. Its long, coarse coat mixes gray, cream, and black hairs. A survey in northern Peru recorded it in both flooded forest and terra firme forest.

• Black Butcherbird Cracticus quoyi

  A black bird with a strong bill hooked at the tip. James Cook University's page documents a campus-area occurrence in Cairns.

• MacConnell's Bat Mesophylla macconnelli

  Among the smallest fruit-eating bats, it uses leaf tents as roosts. It has a broad range across humid forests of Central and South America.

• Eastern yellow robin Eopsaltria australis

  A bird of eastern and southeastern mainland Australia. It pounces from low perches onto insects on the ground.

• Burmese Ferret-badger Melogale personata

  The Burmese ferret-badger has distinctive black-and-white facial markings and a white stripe down its back. It is mostly nocturnal and rests in burrows or other shelters by day.

• Solomons Frogmouth Rigidipenna inexpectata

  The Solomons Frogmouth is a nocturnal forest bird of the Solomon Islands. It has fewer tail feathers than other frogmouths and conspicuous white spots on the breast and belly.

• Hamlyn's Monkey Cercopithecus hamlyni

  A white T-shaped stripe across the face makes this monkey distinctive. It lives in bamboo-rich forests and forms small groups.

• Chubb's Cisticola Cisticola chubbi

  A cisticola of tropical African highlands. It occurs in grassy openings and forest edges, often in pairs or small groups, and gives a scratchy, rapidly changing song.

• Black Duiker Cephalophus niger

  This small antelope is recorded from the Upper Guinea forest zone east to the Lower Niger area of western Nigeria. It has a dark body and legs, a grayish head and neck, and a reddish-brown crown tuft.

• Flame Bowerbird Sericulus ardens

  The Flame Bowerbird lives in forests of southern New Guinea. Males are brightly coloured and build a narrow avenue of sticks as a courtship display site.

• 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.

• Starred Wood-Quail Odontophorus stellatus

  This lowland Amazonian wood-quail has white spots on its breast and wings. It forages on the forest floor in family groups and is often heard before it is seen.

• Cheesman's gerbil Gerbillus (Gerbillus) cheesmani

  This gerbil blends into dry country with its sandy coat. It digs burrows in sand or rocky ground and stores food in them.

• Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus

  The Swallow-tailed Bee-eater is a bee-eater with a deeply forked tail. It waits in savanna woodland and catches insects in flight.

• Central American Least Shrew Cryptotis orophilus

  This small shrew occurs in Central America. Its original description notes different coat colors on the back and underside.

• Purple Indigobird Vidua purpurascens

  The Purple Indigobird's breeding male is purplish, and the species lays its eggs in the nest of Jameson's Firefinch. It searches the ground for grass seeds.

• Doria's Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus dorianus

  It has dark brown fur without silver tipping. It lives in montane forests of southeastern New Guinea and is described as especially adapted to life in trees.

• Damara Tern Sternula balaenarum

  The Damara Tern breeds along the coast of southwestern Africa and moves north along the West African coast seasonally. It may plunge-dive for small fish.