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• African Citril Crithagra citrinelloides

  

  A small yellow-green finch, with a dark facial pattern in males of the nominate subspecies. It occurs in highland grasslands and forest edges in East Africa.

• Nepalese Whiskered Myotis Myotis (Myotis) muricola

  

  This small bat is known from several parts of South and Southeast Asia. Genetic and morphological studies report substantial differences among regional populations and raise the possibility of a species complex.

• Striated Wren-Babbler Ptilocichla mindanensis

  

  A wren-babbler of the Philippines. The nominate form on Mindanao has a fulvous-brown head and back, a white eyebrow and throat, and heavy dark streaks on the breast and belly.

• Mantled guereza Colobus guereza

  

  An African forest monkey with long white fringes that feeds mainly on leaves.

• Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana

  

  The Ortolan Bunting is a bunting whose breeding male has a grayish-olive head and yellow throat. It feeds on seeds on the ground, but mainly on invertebrates during breeding.

• 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.

• Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet Phylloscartes ventralis

  The Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet has a long tail and two pale wingbars. It searches for prey in middle and upper forest layers, changing its foraging behavior with forest structure.

• Steenbok Raphicerus campestris

  The steenbok is a small antelope. In SANParks’ Marakele National Park account, it feeds on grasses, browse and fruits.

• Fischer's Turaco Tauraco fischeri

  A turaco whose red feather pigment contains copper. It moves through forest and thicket using feet adapted for gripping branches, and often eats fruit.

• Columbian Ground Squirrel Urocitellus columbianus

  The Columbian ground squirrel lives in groups in western North American grasslands and alpine meadows. It is known for a long hibernation.

• Northern Black Bustard Afrotis afraoides

  The Northern Black Bustard, also called the Northern Black Korhaan, is a ground-dwelling bird of open, dry country in southern Africa, with very different male and female plumage.

• Eva's deer mouse Peromyscus eva

  Eva's deer mouse occurs on Mexico's Baja California Peninsula and Carmen Island. Its coat varies, and the island population is darker.

• Giant Cowbird Molothrus oryzivorus

  The Giant Cowbird ranges from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. Males are black with a violet sheen, while females are dark brown. It lays eggs in other birds' nests, leaving them to raise its young.

• Lesser Marmoset Rat Hapalomys delacouri

  The lesser marmoset rat has a tail longer than its body, ending in a tuft. A Vietnam guide reports it using bamboo internodes.

• Southern Surucua Trogon Trogon surrucura

  This trogon lives in humid forests and wooded river corridors in South America. Males have blue chests and green backs, while females are mostly grey; both sexes take insects and other prey from perches.

• Papillose Woolly Bat Kerivoula papillosa

  This bat has tiny projections on its wing membrane. It flies through the lower forest at night and catches flying insects.

• Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea

  This flycatcher ranges widely from West to East Africa. It searches for insects in forest and woodland, along rivers and in farmland, and builds a low nest.

• Mount Kilimanjaro Guereza Colobus caudatus

  This black-and-white colobus occurs around Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru. The catalogue uses species rank, while a 2015 field paper referred to it as the subspecies C. guereza caudatus.

• Guianan Red Cotinga Phoenicircus carnifex

  The Guianan Red Cotinga lives in northern South American rainforest. Males are conspicuously red, while females and immatures have more olive coloring. A study in Suriname observed male display sites.

• Velvety Fruit-eating Bat Enchisthenes hartii

  This fruit-eating bat ranges across Central and South America. It is often recorded in moist forests, and there are records of it eating small figs.

• Greater Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa

  The Greater Sooty Owl is a nocturnal forest owl recorded in eastern Australia and New Guinea. It hunts vertebrate prey in dense forest.

• Alpine ibex Capra ibex

  A wild goat of high meadows and rocky slopes in the Alps.

• Arabian Babbler Argya squamiceps

  This brown babbler has a long tail. It searches the ground for small invertebrates by day and lives in dry scrub and other open habitats.

• Indochinese Flying Squirrel Hylopetes phayrei

  The Indochinese flying squirrel is an arboreal squirrel of Southeast Asian forests. It glides between trees using a membrane stretched between its fore and hind limbs.