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• Thick-billed Honeyguide Indicator conirostris

  

  This honeyguide is associated with forest in West Africa. A Cameroon tour report recorded one individual each on Mount Cameroon and Mount Kupe.

• Laxmann's shrew Sorex caecutiens

  Laxmann's shrew (Sorex caecutiens) occurs from Europe to East Asia.

• Long-billed Thrasher Toxostoma longirostre

  A southern North American bird that uses its long bill to turn leaf litter while searching for insects in dry scrub.

• Amami Rabbit Pentalagus furnessi

  The Amami rabbit is a short-eared, short-legged rabbit found in the forests of Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima. It eats grasses, young shoots and fruit, and usually lives alone.

• African Desert Warbler Curruca deserti

  The African Desert Warbler is a small warbler of North African deserts. It is treated as distinct from the Asian Desert Warbler.

• Burmese Goral Naemorhedus evansi

  This goral has long ears and coarse gray to gray-brown fur. Both males and females have horns. In northern Thailand it occurs on steep rocky slopes, in cliff grassland, and in mountain forest.

• Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga

  An East African waxbill of grassland and scrub. The male has a grey head and red rump; it feeds on grass seeds and insects.

• Yellow-necked Field Mouse Apodemus flavicollis

  Apodemus flavicollis is described in a British mammal atlas as mainly a woodland mouse. The yellowish band below its neck joins the brown upper fur, and many British records are near ancient woodland.

• Pied Thrush Geokichla wardii

  The male has striking black-and-white markings. The species breeds in Himalayan forests and moves south for the winter.

• Weddell's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus weddelli

  A small monkey recorded in Rondônia, Brazil. The official species account describes the nominate subspecies east of the Madeira River.

• White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides

  The White-fronted Bee-eater is strikingly marked with a white forehead, red throat, and orange and green plumage. It catches insects in flight, and helpers assist at nesting colonies.

• Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus pusillus

  This fruit bat ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa. Males have conspicuous white tufts of fur at the shoulders; females do not.

• Andaman Barn Owl Tyto deroepstorffi

  A barn owl endemic to the Andaman Islands. It is nocturnal, and a 2013 field paper recorded an individual roosting in a cave on an island in Middle Andaman.

• Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus lumholtzi

  Lumholtz’s tree kangaroo lives in the upland forests of northern Queensland. It eats leaves and fruit and uses its tail for balance in the trees.

• Russet-winged Schiffornis Schiffornis stenorhyncha

  The Russet-winged Schiffornis occurs in eastern Panama, northern Colombia, and northern Venezuela. The account notes that it was formerly included in Thrush-like Schiffornis, but treats it as a separate species.

• Caucasian squirrel Sciurus (Tenes) anomalus

  A tree squirrel of southwestern Asia, it lives in forests and orchards. Tree seeds are its main food, with oak seeds important across much of its range.

• Indochinese Barbet Psilopogon annamensis

  The Indochinese Barbet is a near-endemic resident of Vietnam. A Vietnamese species account reports it above 750 m in parts of eastern Laos and Cambodia and central to south-central Vietnam.

• South-eastern Woolly Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Micoureus) paraguayana

  The South-eastern Woolly Mouse Opossum is a small climbing marsupial with long, dense fur. It eats insects and fruit, and occurs in the Atlantic Forest of eastern South America.

• Guira Tanager Hemithraupis guira

  This tanager occurs widely in Amazonia and elsewhere in South America. In Tumbes, northwestern Peru, the regional account says it seems limited to mangroves near sea level.

• Hatinh Langur Trachypithecus hatinhensis

  The Hatinh langur has a black body and a white stripe running from the cheeks toward the neck. By day it feeds in forest trees and rests at night in limestone holes and caves.

• Rufous-winged Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus rufipennis

  The Rufous-winged Ground Cuckoo is a large ground cuckoo of foothill forest from southern Venezuela to northern Brazil. It has rufous wings and bare red skin around the eye.

• Spotted-necked Otter Hydrictis maculicollis

  A slender otter of African lakes and large rivers that catches fish in the water.

• Brown-winged Kingfisher Pelargopsis amauroptera

  Adults have orange-brown underparts and a blue back. In southwestern Bangladesh's mangroves, the bird watches waterways from low perches and dives for prey.

• Allegheny Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) magister

  This rodent occurs in the eastern United States. Its back is gray to brownish gray, its underside is white, and its long tail is distinctly two-toned.