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• Sickle-winged Guan Chamaepetes goudotii

  

  This large bird stands out for its rufous breast and belly and blue bare skin on the face. In Peruvian mountain forest it searches for food in the mid-canopy and on the ground.

• Rock Mouse Peromyscus difficilis

  The Rock Mouse is listed from Mexico in the current mammal database. A 2010 species account describes large ears and a bicolored tail slightly longer than the head and body.

• Variable Limestone Babbler Gypsophila crispifrons

  The Variable Limestone Babbler is a medium-sized bird of limestone hills. Its dark back and broad gray-brown streaks across the breast and belly are distinctive.

• Redwood Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) ochrogenys

  This chipmunk lives in coastal mountains of northern California. It occupies redwood and mixed-conifer forests, forages on the ground, and also climbs low branches.

• Chestnut-backed Chickadee Poecile rufescens

  This small bird lives along the Pacific coast of North America. Its rich brown plumage blends with coastal tree bark, and it travels with foraging flocks.

• Lowe's Mona Monkey Cercopithecus lowei

  This monkey lives in the trees of lowland forests in West Africa. It mainly eats fruit, along with leaves, seeds, flowers, bark, and insects.

• Curve-billed Tinamou Nothoprocta curvirostris

  This ground-dwelling tinamou lives in high Andean grasslands. Its curved bill and rufous underparts are distinctive.

• 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.

• Mountain Thornbill Acanthiza katherina

  Mountain Thornbills are endemic to Queensland’s Wet Tropics and inhabit upland rainforest. BirdLife reports their highest densities at about 1,200 m.

• Inland Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens balstoni

  The inland broad-nosed bat has a broad, bare muzzle and short, dense fur. It roosts in tree hollows or buildings and catches flying insects over water.

• Inti Tanager Heliothraupis oneilli

  Heliothraupis oneilli was described from the lower Yungas of Peru and Bolivia. The study reports different recorded settings in the breeding season and dry season.

• Tree Bat Ardops nichollsi

  The lesser Antillean tree bat has brown fur and a white spot where the wing joins the body. It is thought to roost in woody vegetation on Dominica, but field observations are limited.

• Lovely Cotinga Cotinga amabilis

  The male is metallic blue and purple, while the female has a scaly gray, brown, and whitish pattern. It uses humid forest canopy, sometimes gathering at fruiting trees.

• Soemmerring's gazelle Nanger soemmerringii

  Soemmerring's gazelle is a gazelle of the dry grasslands and scrub of the Horn of Africa.

• Dolphin Gull Leucophaeus scoresbii

  The Dolphin Gull is a dark gull of southern South America and the Falkland Islands. It scavenges along the coast and often gathers at seabird and marine mammal colonies.

• Magdalena Rat Xenomys nelsoni

  The Magdalena rat lives in dry forests on Mexico's Pacific coast. It is arboreal and nocturnal, usually solitary, and feeds on leaves, buds, and fruit.

• Sahul Cicadabird Coracina tenuirostris

  The Sahul Cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre) is the current Clements taxon split from the broad Cicadabird. An adult male was recorded along a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in May 2010.

• Dusky Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Funambulus) sublineatus

  This small palm squirrel lives in damp forest. It has subdued coloring and faint stripes, and observations in India record it feeding on nectar and fruit.

• Giant Pitta Hydrornis caeruleus

  The Giant Pitta is a large pitta of lowland forests in Southeast Asia. A Sabah bird guide describes males as blue and females as browner.

• Mantled guereza Colobus guereza

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

• Fiji Bush Warbler Horornis ruficapilla

  The Fiji Bush Warbler is endemic to Fiji and lives in dense undergrowth in mountain forest. General descriptions show a dark chestnut head, while the Kadavu form has a broad pale eyebrow.

• Hamiguitan Batomys Batomys hamiguitan

  The Hamiguitan Batomys is known from Mount Hamiguitan in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. The original survey recorded it in the transition between lowland and montane forest and in primary montane forest.

• Rufous-fronted Babbler Cyanoderma rufifrons

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

• California Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) californicus

  The California myotis is a small North American bat. Its coat varies with location, including between dry regions and high elevations.