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• White-eyed Prinia Schistolais leontica

  

  This prinia includes a documented record from the Fouta Djalon highlands of Guinea. English accounts use both White-eyed Prinia and Sierra Leone Prinia.

• Charming gerbil Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) amoenus

  The charming gerbil is a small rodent found in North Africa. Records cover hard dry ground, salt marshes, and cultivated land, among other settings.

• Chiguanco Thrush Turdus chiguanco

  This thrush has a gray-brown body, yellow bill, and yellow legs. The Peruvian account says it searches for food by hopping on the ground and eats fruit and insects.

• Ursine Tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus ursinus

  This tree-kangaroo has a black back and a white tail tip. It lives in West Papua’s montane rainforest, but its wild diet is poorly known.

• Black-spotted Barbet Capito niger

  This barbet lives in moist lowland forest and swamps in northern South America. Both sexes excavate nest cavities in tree stumps, and the diet consists mainly of fruit and oily seeds.

• Relict Ground Squirrel Spermophilus relictus

  The relict ground squirrel is a terrestrial squirrel of the Central Asian Tian Shan. It inhabits mountain steppe and semi-desert and has a long hibernation.

• Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica

  This small, social finch has a bright yellow face and belly set off by black lines on its head. In its native African range, it forages in flocks.

• Southern Water Vole Arvicola sapidus

  The southern water vole is a semi-aquatic rodent. It eats plants along riverbanks and digs burrows in soft, vegetated banks.

• Halmahera Cuckooshrike Coracina parvula

  The Halmahera Cuckooshrike lives in forest and mountain habitat and searches trees for small invertebrates. The colour description is limited to one distant observation on Halmahera.

• Fischer's Pygmy Fruit Bat Haplonycteris fischeri

  This small, tailless bat has a darker head and cinnamon-brown fur. It lives in Philippine forests and eats fruit, including figs.

• Rüppell's Black Chat Myrmecocichla melaena

  Rüppell's Black Chat is entirely black, with a large white wing patch that becomes conspicuous in flight. It lives in rocky northern Abyssinian highlands and feeds on invertebrates on the ground.

• Sitatunga Tragelaphus spekii

  A wetland antelope adapted to life among swamp vegetation.

• Manipur Fulvetta Fulvetta manipurensis

  This babbler ranges from northeastern India to northern Vietnam. Records in China are from western and southeastern Yunnan, where it searches for insects in forest undergrowth and bamboo thickets.

• Amber Bamboo Bat Tylonycteris fulvida

  This small bat was recorded in bamboo groves in Assam, India. It has golden-brown dorsal fur, a flattened head, and pale pads on its thumbs.

• Scrub Greenlet Hylophilus flavipes

  This small bird was studied in populations of Colombia’s Magdalena Valley. It searches foliage in scrub and woodland for small invertebrates.

• Zanzibar Red Colobus Piliocolobus kirkii

  The Zanzibar red colobus has a coat of red, black and white. It occurs on islands in the Zanzibar Archipelago off Tanzania and feeds often on young leaves.

• White-winged Brush Finch Atlapetes leucopterus

  The White-winged Brush Finch is a medium-sized brushfinch of the western Andes of Ecuador and northern Peru. It has a black mask, olive back, golden crest, and white underparts.

• Brock's Yellow-eared Bat Vampyriscus brocki

  This small bat lives in South American rainforests east of the Andes. It eats fruit and prefers primary and riverine forests.

• White-cheeked Bushtit Aegithalos leucogenys

  The White-cheeked Tit is a small bird, about 11 cm long. Its white cheek patch and black bib stand out; it lives in dry scrub and open woodland in northeastern Afghanistan and Pakistan.

• Long-tailed Pseudomys Pseudomys higginsi

  It has grayish-brown fur above, a white underside, and a slender tail longer than its body. It makes tunnels beneath the mossy floor of Tasmania’s wet forests.

• Papyrus Gonolek Laniarius mufumbiri

  This bush-shrike lives in East African papyrus wetlands. Adults have black upperparts, a yellow crown, a white wing bar, and orange-red underparts.

• Woodchuck Marmota (Marmota) monax

  A North American squirrel relative that eats plants near fields and woodland edges and digs an underground burrow.

• Ameline Swiftlet Aerodramus amelis

  The Ameline Swiftlet occurs on Philippine islands and Balambangan Island off northern Borneo. It flies over forests and open habitats.

• Cloud Forest Rice Rat Oryzomys saturatior

  Its back is cinnamon brown heavily mixed with black, and its underside is ochre buff. It lives in cloud forest from southern Mexico through northern Central America, at 750–2,500 m.