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• Spot-winged Thrush Geokichla spiloptera

  

  The Spot-winged Thrush has two pale bars on its wings and brown spots across its breast and belly. It searches forest floors in Sri Lanka for insects and fallen fruit.

• Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus fuscus

  Lesson’s saddle-back tamarin lives in lowland forest from southeastern Colombia to northwestern Brazil. It has a black head and face, a reddish throat and belly, and a mottled back.

• Red-headed Finch Amadina erythrocephala

  A chunky gray-brown finch with scalloped underparts and white-tipped outer tail feathers, it breeds in pairs in dry thorn scrub and forms flocks at other times.

• Defassa waterbuck Kobus defassa

  The Defassa form has a solid white rump patch rather than the white ring of the common waterbuck. At Nechisar in southern Ethiopia, a 2016–17 study recorded mainly grazing, with more browsing in the dry season.

• Temminck's Tragopan Tragopan temminckii

  Temminck’s Tragopan is a pheasant of mountain forests. Males show a blue face and spotted russet plumage, and display during courtship.

• Lesser Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus geoffroyi

  The lesser long-eared bat is recorded in Victoria, southeastern Australia. It roosts in tree hollows and buildings and has long ears.

• Olive-backed Oriole Oriolus sagittatus

  The Olive-backed Oriole lives in semi-open woodland and eucalypt forest. It has an olive back, red eye, and streaked pale underparts.

• Chihuahua Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus eremicus

  The Chihuahua pocket mouse is a small rodent of dry country in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

• Spot-winged Starling Saroglossa spilopterus

  Regional accounts describe the Spot-winged Starling as breeding in Himalayan foothills and wintering around northeast India. A flock feeding on flower nectar was recorded in northeast India, but that account is a single site and date.

• Toque Macaque Macaca sinica

  A macaque endemic to Sri Lanka; the shape of its crown tuft varies by region.

• Green-backed Becard Pachyramphus viridis

  This becard is recorded rarely or irregularly in Bolivia. Its back and wings are green, and its chest is yellow. It searches for arthropods in semi-humid to wet lowland woodland and forest on lower eastern slopes.

• Andean White-eared Opossum Didelphis pernigra

  The Andean white-eared opossum is a marsupial with white ears and distinctive facial markings. It is associated mainly with mountain forests, but records also include riparian and human-modified habitats in parts of its range.

• 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.

• 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.

• Buff-sided Robin Poecilodryas cerviniventris

  Oiseaux.net lists a length of 16–18 cm and a mass of 20–25 g, and gives humid forest, riparian vegetation, and mangroves as habitats. Its page also lists audio-recording sites in northern Australia.

• Brazilian Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma doriae

  The Brazilian big-eyed bat has distinctive white lines on its face and back. It is recorded in many Brazilian habitats and often feeds on wild figs.

• Green-breasted Pitta Pitta reichenowi

  This large pitta has a green breast. It searches for invertebrates on the ground and lives in tropical forests and related habitats.

• Annamite Striped Rabbit Nesolagus timminsi

  This rabbit inhabits Annamite rainforest, is nocturnal, and rests in burrows made by other animals.

• White-winged Swallow Tachycineta albiventer

  The White-winged Swallow has a glossy blue-green back, white underside, and conspicuous white wing patch. It pursues prey low over water or land.

• White-footed Deermouse Peromyscus leucopus

  The white-footed deermouse has reddish-brown upperparts and a white underside and feet. The Texas account describes it as mostly nocturnal and living in woodlands and river bottoms.

• Crimson Fruitcrow Haematoderus militaris

  This cotinga inhabits lowland moist forest from the Guianas to northern Amazonia. Males are vivid crimson, while females and young birds have darker brown upperparts. It mainly eats fruit and is often solitary.

• Insular Flying Fox Pteropus tonganus

  The insular flying fox, also called the Pacific flying fox, is a large bat of Pacific islands. It roosts in tall trees by day and searches for fruit and flowers at night.

• Golden Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysogaster

  Males are conspicuously yellow with black wings. The species uses dry, semi-open country and forest edges, where it eats seeds, insects, and fruit.

• Black-flanked Rock Wallaby Petrogale lateralis

  The black-flanked rock wallaby lives among rocky outcrops in western and south-central Australia. A dark flank stripe and use of rock crevices are characteristic.