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• Lühder's Bushshrike Laniarius luehderi

  

  A forest bushshrike of west and central Africa. Adults combine tawny-orange head and breast, a black face mask and a broad white wing stripe.

• Subsaharan Pygmy Mouse Mus (Nannomys) musculoides

  

  The Subsaharan Pygmy Mouse is a very small mouse. At Chappal Waddi in Nigeria, it was common in savanna grassland and less common in the forest zone.

• Tropeiro Seedeater Sporophila beltoni

  

  The adult male is bluish grey with a thick, bright yellow bill. This seedeater breeds in upland grasslands of southern Brazil and moves north to the Cerrado for winter.

• Common Yellow Bat Scotophilus heathii

  

  A bat recorded in forests, woodlands, plantations, and other cultivated land from lowlands to higher hills. The Kerala account describes it flying low while feeding on insects.

• Bachman's Sparrow Peucaea aestivalis

  

  Bachman's Sparrow lives in open pine woods and grasslands in the southeastern United States. It searches the ground for grass seeds and insects and has reddish streaks on its back.

• Horsfield's Fruit Bat Cynopterus horsfieldii

  

  This fruit bat ranges from mainland Southeast Asia to the Malay Peninsula and islands including Sumatra and Java. It has been recorded in lowland and montane forest, orchards, and agricultural areas.

• Olive-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis semiflava

  An adult male is marked by a black facial mask extending from the forehead toward the sides of the neck and by bright yellow underparts. In Costa Rica, the bird uses wet grassy places and marsh cover and is usually in pairs.

• Gorontalo Macaque Macaca nigrescens

  This dark-furred macaque has flat hair on its crown and lives in forests of northern Sulawesi. It eats fruit, other plant matter, and insects.

• Visayan Flowerpecker Dicaeum haematostictum

  This flowerpecker is endemic to the Philippine Visayan Islands. BirdLife's 2001 account lists Panay, Guimaras, and Negros, but records differ in age and the account notes uncertainty about status on some islands.

• Visored Bat Sphaeronycteris toxophyllum

  The visored bat is small, with cinnamon-brown fur and fleshy growths on its face. Its behavior is undocumented; one examined stomach resembled yellow fruit pulp, but this single observation does not establish its usual diet.

• Sao Tome Fiscal Lanius newtoni

  The Sao Tome Fiscal is endemic to the forests of São Tomé Island. Adults have a contrasting black back and pale underparts, and hunt for prey on the ground from a perch.

• 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.

• Bokikokiko Acrocephalus aequinoctialis

  This Pacific island reed warbler was studied on Kiritimati, where it was more often found in places with taller Heliotropium and Scaevola plants.

• Yucatan Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) yucatanensis

  This squirrel lives around the Yucatán region and forages in trees and on the ground by day.

• Black Nunbird Monasa atra

  The Black Nunbird is about 25–29 cm long. It is diurnal in northern South American humid forest and scrub, where it sallies to take small invertebrates from nearby surfaces.

• Western Amazonian Oryzomys Hylaeamys perenensis

  The western Amazonian oryzomys occurs in the western Amazon Basin. In one Peruvian reserve, it was captured most often in forest, but that local pattern is not assumed to define the species everywhere.

• Pin-tailed Sandgrouse Pterocles alchata

  The Pin-tailed Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry steppe-like areas. In the European account, males have elongated central tail feathers and differ from females in breast and facial markings.

• Cheesman's gerbil Gerbillus (Gerbillus) cheesmani

  This gerbil blends into dry country with its sandy coat. It digs burrows in sand or rocky ground and stores food in them.

• Cape Francolin Pternistis capensis

  This southern African spurfowl has pale cheeks and a dark cap, and searches for food on the ground.

• Northern Serotine Eptesicus (Cnephaeus) nilssonii

  It is recorded in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Its long, dark back fur has golden-yellow tips; the HMW species account describes insect hunting in flight around northern forests and their edges.

• African Pitta Pitta angolensis

  Both sexes have vivid green, blue, yellow, and red plumage, yet hide among thickets and leaf litter. Birds that migrate to southern Africa to breed forage for invertebrates in riverine woodland.

• Bonin flying fox Pteropus pselaphon

  A large fruit-eating bat native only to the Ogasawara Islands.

• Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus

  The Yellow-throated Longclaw walks on the ground to search for prey. An adult male of the nominate subspecies has a conspicuous yellow throat and breast.

• Miller's Langur Presbytis canicrus

  Presbytis canicrus is a langur of East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. A field report identified it by its dark head, white forehead, and gray back, and recorded an individual active in a karst-forest tree while eating fruit.