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• Dwarf Vireo Vireo nelsoni

  

  The Dwarf Vireo is endemic to Mexico's highlands, from Guanajuato south to northern Oaxaca.

• 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.

• Checker-throated Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla fulviventris

  The Checker-throated Stipplethroat ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It is treated here as Epinecrophylla fulviventris; older sources may use Myrmotherula fulviventris for the same species. It feeds on insects and spiders in the lower storey of wet foothill forest.

• Southern Pygmy Mouse Baiomys musculus

  The Southern Pygmy Mouse is a small mouse whose back fur varies from reddish-brown to dark across its range. It has been found in grassy and shrubby places and eats grass seeds, nuts, and other plant foods.

• Cinereous Bulbul Hemixos cinereus

  This bulbul occurs in Southeast Asian mountain forests. It eats fruit, seeds, and insects; the Bornean subspecies is described with a yellow undertail.

• Olympic Marmot Marmota (Petromarmota) olympus

  The Olympic marmot lives only in Olympic Mountain meadows. It eats flowering plants, stores fat and hibernates for a long period.

• Kauai Amakihi Chlorodrepanis stejnegeri

  This Hawaiian honeycreeper lives in high-elevation native forest on Kauai. It uses its curved bill to search trunks and branches for insects and also feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Lesser Spot-nosed Guenon Cercopithecus petaurista

  The lesser spot-nosed guenon is marked by a white nose spot and beard. It carries food in cheek pouches.

• 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.

• Caucasus Field Mouse Apodemus ponticus

  This field mouse is currently treated as a species of Apodemus and is recorded across the Caucasus region. A study also documented it in the Zagros Mountains of northwestern Iran.

• Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike Prionops rufiventris

  This helmetshrike lives in Central African forest. It is reported in family groups and mixed-species flocks, from lowland to mid-elevation forest.

• Finlayson's Cave Bat Vespadelus finlaysoni

  Finlayson's cave bat is a small species widespread across Australia. It occurs from deserts to high-rainfall coastal areas, often near rocky outcrops or hills.

• Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri

  Meyer's Parrot lives in woodlands and savannas of central and eastern Africa. It has several subspecies whose plumage varies across the range.

• Anatolian Sheep Ovis gmelini

  This wild sheep inhabits mountains in the Caucasus and western Asia. It uses hills, grasslands, shrublands, and rocky terrain, and lives in groups.

• Philippine Swamphen Porphyrio pulverulentus

  This waterbird inhabits wetlands in the Philippines. An older handbook describes the adult male in slate blue to deep navy, while a current species page lists sheltered, slow or still waters fringed with reeds.

• Kemp's Akodont Deltamys kempi

  This small mouse ranges from southern Brazil through Uruguay to northeastern Argentina. It has been recorded in coastal wetlands and grasslands.

• White-shouldered Fairywren Malurus alboscapulatus

  The White-shouldered Fairywren is a bird of New Guinea that lives in open habitats such as grassland and marshes.

• Japanese Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista leucogenys

  The Japanese giant flying squirrel is a large nocturnal squirrel of Japan's forests. It glides between trees on a membrane stretched between its fore and hind limbs and rests in tree hollows by day.

• Greater Adjutant Leptoptilos dubius

  A large stork with a pinkish head and neck, a white neck ruff, and a hanging pouch on the chest.

• Mitered Langur Presbytis mitrata

  Presbytis mitrata is a monkey of southern Sumatra. It feeds mainly on leaves and is arboreal. Its coat varies, so individuals do not all look alike.

• Ituri Batis Batis ituriensis

  Males have a gray head, black band, and white underparts. Females are paler gray with a white eyebrow. It uses lowland rainforest canopy in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda.

• Lesser Egyptian Gerbil Gerbillus (Gerbillus) gerbillus

  The lesser Egyptian gerbil has sandy to pale orange fur and a long, two-colored tail ending in a tuft. It lives in dry sandy places, where it spends the day in burrows and is active at night.

• Rufous-backed Wren Campylorhynchus capistratus

  A wren of Central American dry forest and scrub. Its white eyebrow and rufous back stand out, and it may build a globular nest in thorny trees.

• Cape Hairy Bat Myotis (Chrysopteron) tricolor

  A bat recorded widely in Africa. A southern African field guide describes reddish-brown fur and roosts in caves and old mine adits.