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• Blue-winged Parrotlet Forpus xanthopterygius

  

  The Blue-winged Parrotlet is a small green parrot. Males of the nominate subspecies have blue-purple on the wings and rump, while females are green in those areas.

• Indian Long-tailed Tree Mouse Vandeleuria oleracea

  

  This small mouse has a long tail and digits suited to climbing. In eastern Indochina it has been recorded in dense shrubs and at forest edges with tangled vines and grasses.

• Josephine's Lorikeet Charmosyna josefinae

  

  A red lorikeet with pale lilac streaks, it feeds on nectar and pollen in the mountain forests of western and central New Guinea.

• Red Bat Lasiurus blossevillii

  

  The red bat is a medium-sized bat with reddish or grayish fur. In Argentina it roosts among foliage and catches insects while flying.

• Thick-billed Ground Pigeon Trugon terrestris

  

  A large pigeon of New Guinea's forests, marked by a thick pale bill and rufous flanks. It searches for food on the forest floor.

• Siberut Langur Presbytis siberu

  

  This langur is endemic to Siberut Island, Indonesia, and the current MDD treats it as a separate species. It lives in trees and is active by day, though field research dedicated to the species remains limited after its separation from related forms.

• Superciliated Wren Cantorchilus superciliaris

  The Superciliated Wren is about 15 cm long. It has a rufous back and tail with black bars on the tail and flight feathers. A white eyebrow, head sides, throat, and breast contrast with the rufous lower underparts. It forages in semideciduous-forest understory and midstory and dry scrub in northwestern Peru, up to about 1,000 m.

• Gray Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga leachii

  The gray long-tongued bat is a small bat that feeds on nectar, pollen, fruit, and insects.

• Bush Blackcap Sylvia nigricapillus

  This babbler occurs in South Africa and western Eswatini. It uses montane forest margins and scrub, and some high-altitude populations move downslope in winter.

• Black-fronted Duiker Cephalophus nigrifrons

  This small antelope is recorded in lowland forest of the Congo Basin. It is reddish-brown to brown, with a black mark down the face.

• Black-breasted Wood Quail Odontophorus leucolaemus

  This quail walks along the forest floor in search of food. Its white throat and dark breast are distinctive, though its plumage pattern varies among individuals.

• Zanj Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus undulatus

  The Zanj sun squirrel has orange-ocher coloring on its cheeks and feet. In East African coastal and riparian forests it is active in trees by day, feeding on fruits and seeds.

• Lemon-bellied Flyrobin Microeca flavigaster

  This small bird occurs in northern Australia. Its belly is pale lemon except in the Kimberley subspecies, and it often calls from high perches.

• Catalina Deermouse Peromyscus slevini

  This mouse is known only from Santa Catalina Island, Mexico. Records from the island include an animal seen active by day.

• Arfak Astrapia Astrapia nigra

  The Arfak Astrapia is a bird-of-paradise of montane forest in western New Guinea. The male has iridescent plumage and a long tail; the female is smaller and darker.

• South China Field Mouse Apodemus draco

  The South China Field Mouse lives in southern Chinese forests, where its seed-hoarding behavior has been studied.

• Banded Martin Neophedina cincta

  The Banded Martin is a swallow of sub-Saharan Africa. It catches insects in flight over open grassland and freshwater habitats and makes north-south movements in response to rainfall.

• Western Barbastelle Barbastella barbastellus

  The European barbastelle is a bat whose broad ears meet above its forehead. The tips of its black fur are pale, and it uses different roosts in summer and winter.

• Cinereous Owl Strix sartorii

  This owl is documented in the mountains of Mexico. The American Ornithological Society committee account notes its original description from high-elevation pine forest in Veracruz and identifies its ash-gray coloration as a distinguishing feature.

• White-fronted Langur Presbytis frontata

  The white-fronted langur is a Bornean monkey with gray-brown fur and a white bare patch on its forehead. It is active by day, but its detailed ecology is poorly known.

• Junin Grebe Podiceps taczanowskii

  The Junin Grebe is a flightless grebe found only at Lake Junín in central Peru. It changes the parts of the lake it uses between the breeding season and the rest of the year.

• Davis's Round-eared Bat Lophostoma evotis

  Davis’s Round-eared Bat is recorded in lowlands from southern Mexico to northeastern Honduras. It flies in the forest understory and feeds mainly on insects.

• Gray Pratincole Glareola cinerea

  The Gray Pratincole catches flying insects on the wing and lives around large rivers in West Africa, where it rests and nests on sandbanks.

• Bohor Reedbuck Redunca redunca

  The bohor reedbuck is an antelope with yellowish-brown to gray-brown fur. It hides among tall grasses and mainly eats grass.