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• Lantz's Brush-warbler Nesillas lantzii

  

  This brush-warbler occurs in southwestern Madagascar from sea level to about 500 m. It has a long graduated tail and searches for insects by day, alone or in pairs.

• Hooper's Deermouse Peromyscus hooperi

  This deer mouse has records from a restricted part of north-central Mexico. It uses grassy foothills and mountain slopes, distinct from nearby desert scrub.

• Chaetornis striata

  This grassland bird often remains hidden in cover. A Kerala sighting describes a fulvous-brown back with bold streaks, while a study in Nepal recorded it in riverine grasslands.

• Lodgepole Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) speciosus

  The lodgepole chipmunk inhabits conifer forests in California, including the Sierra Nevada. It is active by day and gathers food on the ground.

• Yellow-throated Hanging Parrot Loriculus pusillus

  This small green parrot has a yellow-orange throat mark and red rump. It occurs on Java and Bali and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Gelada Theropithecus gelada

  A grass-eating monkey of the Ethiopian highlands.

• Atoll Fruit Dove Ptilinopus coralensis

  The Atoll Fruit Dove has a pink to purple crown and yellow belly. It lives in Tuamotu atoll forests and coconut groves, eating fruit, leaves, flowers, and insects.

• Loring's Thallomys Thallomys loringi

  Loring's Thallomys is recorded in western, central, and southwestern Kenya and northern Tanzania. It lives in trees in acacia woodland and savanna scrub.

• Paradise Riflebird Ptiloris paradiseus

  The Paradise Riflebird lives in forests of eastern Australia. Males court by displaying glossy black plumage, while females are brown and patterned.

• Hawaiian Hoary Bat Aeorestes semotus

  This bat is naturally found only in the Hawaiian Islands, on the main islands except Niihau.

• White-plumed Honeyeater Ptilotula penicillata

  This honeyeater lives in woodland and forest on mainland Australia. A white neck plume is its key mark, and it feeds in tree crowns and shrubs.

• Godman's Long-tailed Bat Choeroniscus godmani

  Godman's long-tailed bat belongs to a nectar-feeding genus and is described as the smallest species in Choeroniscus.

• Crested Becard Pachyramphus validus

  Adult males have dark crowns and upperparts, while females are cinnamon-colored with gray crowns. In southern Peru's inter-Andean valleys, the account describes subspecies audax as a rare resident.

• Damara Dik-dik Madoqua damarensis

  Madoqua damarensis ranges from northern and northwestern Namibia into southwestern Angola. In the northern Namibian population recorded under the former name M. kirkii damarensis, males had forehead crests reaching between the horns and browsed leaves and twigs in dense shrub thicket.

• Grey-faced Petrel Pterodroma gouldi

  This large dark petrel breeds on islands and mainland headlands in northern New Zealand. It has long, narrow wings and raises its chick in a burrow.

• White-eared Cotton Rat Sigmodon (Sigmodon) leucotis

  The White-eared Cotton Rat was one of five cotton rats compared in a 1971 study. In the captive young studied, growth was rapid until about 40 days of age and then slowed.

• Chopi Blackbird Gnorimopsar chopi

  This all-black icterid has records in protected areas across Argentina. It is seen alone or in pairs and sometimes gathers in groups.

• 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.

• Wangi-wangi White-eye Zosterops paruhbesar

  This white-eye was described from Wangi-Wangi Island. A later field survey also recorded it on Simpora, about 450 m to the south.

• Black-shanked Douc Pygathrix nigripes

  The black-shanked douc is a douc langur found in forests of southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. It spends most of its time in trees and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Rufous-necked Snowfinch Pyrgilauda ruficollis

  The Rufous-necked Snowfinch lives in highlands such as the Tibetan Plateau and has a rufous patch on the side of the neck.

• Grassland Melomys Melomys burtoni

  The grassland melomys has reddish-brown upperparts and a white underside. In a Halmahera survey, it was caught in ground-level traps in secondary growth, including near rivers.

• Anchieta's Barbet Stactolaema anchietae

  This small barbet is recorded in miombo woodland on Angola's interior plateau. It has a brown body, a pale yellow face, and similar-looking sexes.

• Black-winged Little Yellow Bat Rhogeessa tumida

  The black-winged little yellow bat ranges from southern Mexico into northern Central America. The edges of its range remain uncertain.