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• Mentawai Flying Squirrel Iomys sipora

  

  The Mentawai Flying Squirrel has dark brown fur on its back and paler gray underparts. It occurs on Sipora and North Pagai islands west of Sumatra, in mature forest below 500 m.

• Sunda Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus bornensis

  The Sunda Scimitar-Babbler occurs on Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay Peninsula. It is treated as a species separate from the Javan Scimitar-Babbler and has a long downcurved bill.

• Goytaca Cerradomys Cerradomys goytaca

  This rodent is recorded in coastal restinga in southeastern Brazil. Its back is orange-brown, its head grey, and its tail is bicolored. The original habitat study recorded it most often in low shrub patches and also caught it on branches.

• Andaman Crake Rallina canningi

  This rail has chestnut head and upperparts and black-and-white bars on the belly. It hides in wet forest and marsh vegetation, so it is difficult to see.

• Alpine Long-eared Bat Plecotus macrobullaris

  This long-eared bat occurs in mountains of the southwestern and central Palearctic. Most individuals have an inverted triangular pad below the lower lip and the species mainly eats moths. Reports of foraging habitat differ by region.

• Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius

  A migratory bird with a dark cap and sandy plumage that travels between Central Asia and regions including South Asia.

• Harvest Mouse Micromys minutus

  A small mouse that climbs long grasses and reeds with its grasping tail.

• Tinian Monarch Monarcha takatsukasae

  This forest bird is endemic to Tinian. Juveniles have a yellow bill base and buff tips on the wing bars and rump, which distinguish them from adults.

• Tarai Gray Langur Semnopithecus hector

  The Tarai gray langur lives in the Himalayan foothills. It has a white head, a grayish-yellow to pale orange body, and brownish limbs.

• Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis

  The Great Shearwater breeds on South Atlantic islands and moves to the North Atlantic during boreal summer.

• Grant's gazelle Nanger granti

  A long-legged gazelle with a conspicuous pale rump patch.

• Western House Martin Delichon urbicum

  This swallow breeds across Europe and western Asia and winters south of the Sahara. It has blue-black upperparts, a white rump and underside, and a forked tail. It catches insects in flight and builds mud nests under eaves or on cliffs.

• Abert's Squirrel Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti

  A U.S. Forest Service species review depicts a gray-and-white squirrel with long, pointed ear tufts. It is closely associated with ponderosa pine forests.

• Bare-throated Whistler Pachycephala nudigula

  The Bare-throated Whistler lives in forests and mountains on Sumbawa and Flores in Indonesia. Males have a bare red patch low on the throat.

• Marsh Rice Rat Oryzomys palustris

  This semiaquatic rat uses wetlands and watersides. The balance of plant and animal foods in its diet varies by region.

• Helmeted Manakin Chiroxiphia galeata

  The Helmeted Manakin is a small manakin with different male and female plumage. A study in southeastern Brazil documented nests low in the forest undergrowth.

• Canary Long-eared Bat Plecotus teneriffae

  A long-eared bat of Tenerife and other Canary Islands. It uses woodland and feeds on moths and longhorn beetles.

• Tablas Drongo Dicrurus menagei

  This drongo is treated as endemic to Tablas Island in the Philippines. Its outer tail feathers are very long and curve outward at the tips; most field observations were in mature, closed-canopy forest.

• Pacific rat Rattus exulans

  The Pacific rat is thought to have originated in Southeast Asia and spread to Pacific islands. In New Zealand it is known as kiore.

• Bluish-fronted Jacamar Galbula cyanescens

  The Bluish-fronted Jacamar has a metallic blue-green crown and rufous underparts. It lives in riverine forest, and its only known nest is a tunnel in a stream bank.

• Dryad Monkey Chlorocebus dryas

  The Dryas monkey is a forest-dwelling primate known only from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Surveys in the Lomami region recorded it in areas that included dense understory and forest edges.

• Necklaced Barbet Psilopogon auricularis

  This barbet is recorded in the forests of Langbiang World Biosphere Reserve in Lam Dong, Vietnam. It eats mainly fruit and flowers, as well as insects.

• Red-fronted Gazelle Eudorcas rufifrons

  The red-fronted gazelle has a reddish forehead. This account follows E. rufifrons west of the Nile and keeps eastern related gazelles separate.

• Javan Green Magpie Cissa thalassina

  The Javan Green Magpie is a corvid whose adult green plumage contrasts with the blue feathers of newly hatched young. It eats insects and lizards in Java's mountain forests.