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• Lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus

  

  A monkey of India's Western Ghats forests, recognized by its gray face mane and tufted tail.

• Streak-throated Canastero Asthenes humilis

  

  Streak-throated Canastero occurs in the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Adults have fine dark streaks on the face, throat, and upper breast, plus an orange-red chin patch. They forage on the ground among bunchgrass and scattered rocks.

• Salvin's Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma salvini

  

  Salvin's big-eyed bat ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It has pale stripes on the face and along the back.

• Long-billed Honeyeater Melilestes megarhynchus

  

  The Long-billed Honeyeater occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It has a long, strongly curved bill and feeds on insects, spiders, and nectar at several levels of forest.

• Zarudny's Rock Shrew Crocidura zarudnyi

  

  This shrew has been recorded in arid mountains and plateaus. Its back is pale gray, its belly and feet are white, and its tail is long-haired.

• Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor

  

  The Lesser Honeyguide occurs in wooded habitats in southern Africa. It searches for insects around bark and tree holes and may lay its eggs in the nests of other birds.

• 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.

• Black-browed Tit Aegithalos bonvaloti

  A 2013 Indian BIRDS paper reports photographs of this tit near Namti and Walong in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. The observed group held six to seven birds and used an open area with ferns and scattered pines.

• 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.

• Canary Islands Chiffchaff Phylloscopus canariensis

  This small leaf warbler is endemic to the Canary Islands. It uses habitats from forests to high mountain scrub, as well as farms and gardens, and is usually sedentary.

• Gaumer's Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys gaumeri

  Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse is endemic to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Records show it eating land snails as well as seeds.

• Indian Nightjar Caprimulgus asiaticus

  The Indian Nightjar is a night bird with a complex mottled pattern.

• Colorado Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) quadrivittatus

  The Colorado chipmunk occurs in the southwestern United States, including Colorado and Utah. It forages on the ground and around logs, and stores food.

• Slaty Gnateater Conopophaga ardesiaca

  The Slaty Gnateater is a short-tailed bird of the eastern Andean slopes of Bolivia, living close to the forest floor.

• Brown's Pademelon Thylogale browni

  This small-to-medium wallaby is native to northern and eastern New Guinea, where it occurs in forest and grassland. Populations thought to have been introduced to islands such as New Ireland have contracted.

• Mountain Tailorbird Phyllergates cucullatus

  A rufous crown, white eyebrow, dark eye-stripe, gray face and breast, and yellow belly make this small bird recognizable.

• Müller's Three-striped Dasyure Myoictis melas

  Müller's three-striped dasyure is a dasyurid marsupial from New Guinea's forests. Specimens assigned to the species vary in color, from nearly black to reddish brown.

• Mexican Parrotlet Forpus cyanopygius

  This small parrot lives in western Mexico. Males show blue on the rump and wings, and flocks feed on fruit and grass seeds.

• Durango Deermouse Peromyscus schmidlyi

  The Durango Deermouse was described from western Mexico. The original paper reports mountain records in Durango and eastern Sinaloa.

• Chestnut Wood Quail Odontophorus hyperythrus

  The Chestnut Wood-Quail lives in the understory of humid montane forest in Colombia. Its chestnut and black mottling is set off by a white throat and red forehead patch.

• Geoffroy's Myotis Myotis (Chrysopteron) emarginatus

  A medium-sized bat with rusty to reddish-brown fur on its back, paler fur underneath, and a distinctive notch in the ears.

• Rufous-vented Yuhina Yuhina occipitalis

  A field guide describes a small bird with grey and rufous in its crest. It lives in eastern Himalayan evergreen forest and forages in the canopy and among mossy trunks and branches.

• Arabian oryx Oryx leucoryx

  The Arabian oryx is a white antelope with dark markings on its face and legs.

• Black-capped Gnatcatcher Polioptila nigriceps

  This slender, small bird searches for insects among low vegetation. Breeding males have a black cap.