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• Slender Yellow Bat Rhogeessa gracilis

  

  The Slender Yellow Bat is a small bat recorded in Mexico. Current taxonomic references use Baeodon gracilis for the taxon previously called Rhogeessa gracilis.

• Round-tailed Manakin Ceratopipra chloromeros

  The male is black with a red head, while the female is green. Both have a rounded tail and forage in the understory of unflooded forest.

• Royal Antelope Neotragus pygmaeus

  This small antelope lives in West African forests. Its specialist account describes it using thickets along forest edges and in clearings.

• Spot-winged Monarch Symposiachrus guttula

  The Spot-winged Monarch occurs on New Guinea. A guide to the Mimika region describes a black face and throat, grey back, white underparts and white wing spots, with records from lower and middle forest levels.

• Spinifex Hopping Mouse Notomys alexis

  The spinifex hopping mouse lives in sandy areas from central Australia into the west. It is active at night, moves by hopping, and digs deep burrows in the sand.

• Gould's Frogmouth Batrachostomus stellatus

  Gould's Frogmouth is a small frogmouth of Southeast Asian evergreen broadleaf forest. It occurs in dark and chestnut morphs.

• Black-footed Gray Langur Semnopithecus hypoleucos

  This langur lives in southern India. It is active by day and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

  A large reed warbler that lives in wetlands. In Britain, its loud song can help observers find birds arriving during spring passage.

• Keenan's Hairy-nosed Bat Gardnerycteris keenani

  A bat ranging from middle Central America to the western North Andes. A 2018 taxonomic study treated keenani, formerly a subspecies of G. crenulatum, as a separate species.

• King penguin Aptenodytes patagonicus

  A large penguin recognized by vivid orange patches on the sides of its head.

• Smith's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus cepapi

  Its back ranges from yellowish brown to gray, its underside is pale, and white lines surround the eyes. This is a diurnal squirrel that mainly uses trees.

• Grey-winged Cotinga Lipaugus conditus

  This cotinga was recorded in mountain cloud forests in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. A field report described calling males as similar to females but brighter, with a greyer face.

• Bonaerense Pericote Phyllotis bonariensis

  The Bonaerense Pericote is a rodent reported as restricted to the Sierra de la Ventana in Argentina. The account notes rocky habitat but provides no published behavior or diet data.

• Grey-throated Rail Canirallus oculeus

  This rail lives in lowland rainforest in western and central Africa. It uses ravines and stream edges, feeding on insects, crabs, snails, and small lizards.

• African Yellow Bat Scotophilus dinganii

  The African Yellow Bat has a yellowish underside and eats insects. It roosts in hollow trees and buildings, alone or in small groups.

• Tawny-bellied Hermit Phaethornis syrmatophorus

  This hummingbird occurs in the northern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Peru it is recorded in humid montane forest and in humid or semi-deciduous forest in western Piura.

• 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.

• Cockatiel Nymphicus hollandicus

  A bird of open Australian country, recognized by its crest, long pointed tail and orange cheek patches.

• Western Pseudomys Pseudomys occidentalis

  This mouse from Western Australia has a rounded snout and a long, marked tail. By day it stays in a group burrow and feeds mainly on plants.

• Malawi Batis Batis dimorpha

  A small bird recorded in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. Males and females have different patterns on the chest and wings.

• Tantalus Monkey Chlorocebus tantalus

  Tantalus monkeys forage along forest edges and in grassland, and can disperse seeds from fruit they eat. A study site in Nigeria yielded seeds that remained intact in their faeces.

• Ash-breasted Antbird Myrmoborus lugubris

  The Peru Aves account for subspecies berlepschi associates it with wooded river islands on major Amazonian rivers.

• Hairy Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) hirsutus

  The hairy fruit-eating bat is endemic to Mexico. A colony using caves was studied in Jalisco.

• Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus

  The Northern Carmine Bee-eater is a vivid red bird that catches grasshoppers and other insects in flight, often in flocks.