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• Black-faced Impala Aepyceros petersi

  

  Aepyceros petersi, the black-faced impala, is recorded from southwestern Angola and northwestern Namibia. Bocage described the female collected at Humbe as rufous-fawn, with dark markings on the face.

• Sangihe Hanging Parrot Loriculus catamene

  This small parrot lives on Sangihe Island, Indonesia. The male is green with red markings and feeds on nectar from coconut and other flowers. Females are also known to carry dry leaves to line their nests.

• Hairy Big-eared Bat Micronycteris (Xenoctenes) hirsuta

  The Hairy Big-eared Bat occurs in Central and South America. At a study site in Ecuador, bats carried prey to their roosts and ate mainly katydids and soft-bodied beetles.

• Elegant Imperial Pigeon Ducula concinna

  This large pigeon is about 43 cm long. It lives in forests and woodland on the small islands of Wallacea and feeds on fruit.

• Taiwan Field Mouse Apodemus semotus

  The Taiwan field mouse is endemic to Taiwan. It occurs in mountain forests and is also found in farms and plantations.

• Philippine Frogmouth Batrachostomus septimus

  The Philippine Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird found only in the Philippine archipelago. It catches large insects and lives in forests and at forest edges.

• Alai Mole Vole Ellobius (Ellobius) alaicus

  The Alai mole vole is a subterranean rodent of the Alai Mountains. Its back is buff, its flanks and belly are gray, and its forehead is dark brown. Alpine pasture is reported as habitat.

• Fire-tufted Barbet Psilopogon pyrolophus

  The Fire-tufted Barbet is a green forest bird with red bristles beside its bill, feeding on fruit and insects on the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.

• Pig-tailed Langur Simias concolor

  The pig-tailed langur lives in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands. A study of wild groups on Siberut found that adult males were larger on average than females and that the three groups studied averaged about nine animals.

• Wedge-tailed Eagle Aquila audax

  The Wedge-tailed Eagle is a large eagle marked by a long, wedge-shaped tail and feathered legs down to the toes. It eats live prey as well as carcasses.

• Harris' antelope squirrel Ammospermophilus harrisii

  A ground squirrel with a white side stripe, white belly, and bushy black tail. It gathers food during hot desert days.

• Rufous-fronted Babbler Cyanoderma rufifrons

  The Rufous-fronted Babbler is a small babbler of Asian forests. It searches among vegetation for small invertebrates.

• Southern Yellow Bat Dasypterus ega

  This bat is recorded in the lowlands of Bolivia. Its short, woolly coat is dark gray to cinnamon on the back, with a strongly contrasting belly. It catches insects while flying in open spaces.

• Islet White-eye Zosterops griseotinctus

  This white-eye occurs on Papua New Guinea's offshore islands. A 2015 study examined populations across the Louisiade and other archipelagos.

• 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.

• Violet-tailed Sunbird Anthreptes aurantius

  This sunbird uses wooded habitats near water in Central Africa and takes nectar and fruit. A study in the Republic of the Congo documented several adults feeding young both before and after they fledged.

• Jamaican Fig-eating Bat Ariteus flavescens

  This bat is endemic to Jamaica. It has a shortened snout and white shoulder spots, occurs widely in forests, and roosts in trees.

• Gabela Bushshrike Laniarius amboimensis

  A bushshrike endemic to the Gabela escarpment region of west-central Angola. A 2010 field study recorded it in dry forest above the main scarp and in dense secondary thickets.

• Mound-building Mouse Mus (Mus) spicilegus

  The mound-building mouse is a brown wild mouse that resembles the house mouse. In autumn, young mice build mounds of soil and vegetation and spend winter underground.

• Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis

  This wagtail occurs around water and in open places across Africa. It walks on the ground to find small prey and often bobs its tail.

• Bunny Rat Reithrodon auritus

  Its back has mixed gray and black fur, its underside is pale gray, and its large rounded ears are furry. It lives in open grasslands and pampas, digging or using burrows and natural rock holes.

• African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis

  The African Paradise-Flycatcher is an insect-eating bird of forests and woodland edges south of the Sahara. Males have elongated tail feathers, and plumage varies widely.

• Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus avunculus

  Adult Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys are known for their upturned noses and bluish facial skin. The species is recorded in limestone forests of northern Vietnam and eats leaves and unripe fruit.

• Sichuan Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus forresti

  This leaf-warbler breeds in Sichuan. Its yellow crown stripe, yellow eyebrow, and pale yellow rump are among the field marks described in a specialist field guide.