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• Wolf's Mona Monkey Cercopithecus wolfi

  

  This monkey has a red patch in the middle of its back, a pale belly, and reddish-brown hind legs. It moves through lowland forest canopies in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.

• 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.

• Salt's Dik-dik Madoqua saltiana

  This small antelope occurs in dry areas of Ethiopia, Somalia, and northeastern Sudan. Coat color varies among subspecies, and it browses mainly on acacia.

• Balicassiao Dicrurus balicassius

  A Philippine drongo. The white underparts and mimicry described here apply specifically to subspecies mirabilis.

• Black Giant Squirrel Ratufa bicolor

  The black giant squirrel is a large, tree-dwelling squirrel of forests in South and Southeast Asia. Its dark coat, pale chest marking and long tail are distinctive.

• Rufous-tailed Jacamar Galbula ruficauda

  The Rufous-tailed Jacamar lives along lowland forest edges from Central into South America. It waits on a branch and catches insects in flight.

• Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira tildae

  Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat is a fruit-eating bat found from northern South America into Brazil and neighboring countries. Its coat varies, and it has ochre shoulder patches and dark fur around the eyes.

• Yellow-fronted Barbet Psilopogon flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Barbet is often seen high in forest trees. Its blue face and throat and yellow forehead stand out against a green body.

• Elegant Oryzomys Euryoryzomys nitidus

  The Elegant Oryzomys is a terrestrial rodent of humid forests in western Amazonia. Its tawny back and tail nearly as long as its body are noted in the species account.

• Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia

  The Black-billed Magpie is a large bird common in western North America, with a long tail and black-and-white plumage.

• Cluster Bat Myotis (Pizonyx) sodalis

  The Cluster Bat is a North American bat that hibernates in caves and migrates in spring and fall. It has small hind feet and feeds on insects.

• Guadalupe Murrelet Synthliboramphus hypoleucus

  This small seabird is dark above and white below. It nests on islands off western Baja California and differs from Scripps's Murrelet by having more white around the eye.

• 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.

• Madagascar Kingfisher Corythornis vintsioides

  This small kingfisher has bright blue plumage and rufous underparts. It uses rivers, lakes, wetlands, and mangroves and feeds on aquatic animals such as fish.

• Vervet Monkey Chlorocebus pygerythrus

  A monkey of eastern and southern Africa that forages in groups by day.

• Oriental Skylark Alauda gulgula

  The Oriental Skylark uses open ground in grasslands and fields and eats both plant and animal foods.

• 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.

• Lesson's Motmot Momotus lessonii

  It ranges from southern Mexico to western Panama, using forested areas near water as well as edges and scrub.

• Bolivian Squirrel Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) ignitus

  The Bolivian squirrel lives in trees in South American mountain forests. It has an ocher or brown back, orange lower face and belly, and a rusty-red tail.

• Andean Cock-of-the-rock Rupicola peruvianus

  Males stand out for their bright orange plumage and large crest. The species lives in Andean forest, where males gather for courtship displays.

• Chestnut Short-tailed Bat Carollia castanea

  The chestnut short-tailed bat is a nocturnal fruit-eating bat. In a study, it relied on the scent of ripe Piper fruit when foraging and used more echolocation when that scent was absent.

• Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens

  In the Argentine account, the Crane Hawk is a raptor that walks through wetlands, grasslands, and woodland while searching for food. It has a bluish-gray back and gray-and-white barring.

• Black-wristed Deermouse Peromyscus melanocarpus

  This small mouse lives in mountain forests of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Dark fur on its wrists and lower forelegs stands out; it forages at night for seeds and other foods on the forest floor.

• Song Wren Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus

  The Song Wren inhabits humid lowland forest from Central America into northwestern South America and searches the leaf litter for food. It may be seen in family groups.