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• Rose-bellied Bunting Passerina rositae

  

  The male is blue with a rose-pink belly, while the female is greyish brown. The species inhabits a restricted area of Mexico's southern Pacific slope.

• Spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus

  A quoll with white spots extending onto its tail.

• Chattering Cisticola Cisticola anonymus

  A 2007 paper treated a Sierra Leone population as Chattering Cisticola, while noting it might represent a distinct local form. It describes grey-brown birds with plain backs recorded around wet rice fields.

• Marine Otter Lontra felina

  The marine otter lives among rocky shores along the Pacific coast of South America. It has dark brown fur and feeds on fish, crustaceans, and mollusks.

• Crested Auklet Aethia cristatella

  The Crested Auklet breeds on rocky islands in the Bering Sea and dives underwater for crustaceans and other prey.

• Gianna's Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira giannae

  This bat was described from Peru and has also been recorded in Colombia. Its dorsal fur ranges from brown to reddish brown, with hairs that have differently colored bases and tips. One Colombian survey captured it in both lower and middle forest strata.

• Tahiti Swiftlet Aerodramus leucophaeus

  This swiftlet occurs on Tahiti. The sexes look alike; the bird is dark with a grey rump. It catches insects in flight and nests colonially in wet, rocky, wooded valley canyons.

• Andean Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus leucogenys

  This saddle-back tamarin occurs in forests east of the Andes in Peru. Records include primary and secondary forest, forest edge, and riparian forest.

• Chestnut-bellied Fantail Rhipidura hyperythra

  The Chestnut-bellied Fantail is widespread in hill and lower montane forest on New Guinea. It is active by day, searching in forest and along edges and sallying out to catch airborne prey.

• Eastern White-bearded Wildebeest Connochaetes albojubatus

  It occurs from central Kenya to northern Tanzania, with its western range reaching the Gregory Rift. Its pale gray coat, creamy beard, and drooping mane are distinctive.

• Palm Cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus

  The Palm Cockatoo is a large black parrot of forests in New Guinea and northern Australia; it eats nuts and fruit.

• Goldman's Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) goldmani

  Goldman's woodrat has dark-tipped back hairs and cream-buff fur as an adult. It inhabits rocky deserts on the Mexican Plateau.

• Tapajos Antpitta Myrmothera subcanescens

  This antpitta occurs south of the Amazon River in Brazil. A field account describes grayer flanks, a browner and less olive back, and shorter streaks than in a close relative.

• Least Pygmy Squirrel Exilisciurus exilis

  The least pygmy squirrel is a very small squirrel endemic to Borneo. It moves along tree trunks and lianas and feeds mainly on bark.

• Nubian Nightjar Caprimulgus nubicus

  The Nubian Nightjar was studied in salt marsh and open country in southern Israel. Its foraging times changed with moonlight, and moths were its main prey.

• Assam Rabbit Caprolagus hispidus

  The Assam rabbit is a hare with short, broad ears and a coarse outer coat. It feeds on grass roots and shoots in tall-grass country.

• Yungas Manakin Chiroxiphia boliviana

  The Yungas Manakin is recorded in humid Andean montane forest in southeastern Peru. Males are mostly black with a sky-blue back and ruby crown; females are olive green.

• Lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus

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

• Hooded crane Grus monacha

  A gray crane with a white head and neck that also winters in Japan.

• Salim Ali's Fruit Bat Latidens salimalii

  This uncommon fruit bat lives in Tamil Nadu, southern India. It roosts in cave clusters and leaves to fly in the evening.

• Yellow-eyed Starling Aplonis mystacea

  In one observation from Central Province, Papua New Guinea, a flock of dark adult birds with very pale irises fed on fruit in lowland forest.

• Carmen Mountain Shrew Sorex milleri

  The Carmen Mountain shrew is a small shrew of northern Mexico's highlands. Its back is light brown, its tail is bicolored, and it has been found near logs and leaf litter in moist forest.

• Wedge-tailed Eagle Aquila audax

  The Wedge-tailed Eagle is a large eagle marked by a long, wedge-shaped tail and feathered legs down to the toes. It eats live prey as well as carcasses.

• 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.