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• Eastern Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens orion

  

  This broad-nosed bat occurs in eastern Australia. Its back is dark brown and the underside is duller and paler. Records come from wet forests and more open woodland.

• Buff-throated Partridge Tetraophasis szechenyii

  The Buff-throated Partridge is a high-mountain pheasant relative in which males and females have similar plumage. A study in western Sichuan found that its preferred woodland changed by season.

• Taiga Vole Microtus xanthognathus

  This vole has yellowish cheeks and a two-colored tail. It eats grasses and berries in summer and stores rhizomes for winter.

• Pollen's Vanga Xenopirostris polleni

  This vanga is endemic to humid evergreen forest in eastern Madagascar. It is recorded from sea level to 2,000 m, though its distribution is patchy.

• Indomalayan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Chiropodomys gliroides

  The Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse is a small arboreal rodent of Asian forests. It uses trees and bamboo, and the long tail ends in a tuft of hair.

• Least Tern Sternula antillarum

  A small tern that searches above the water for small fish, then plunges to catch them. Breeding adults show a black cap and yellow bill.

• Himalayan tahr Hemitragus jemlahicus

  A sure-footed hoofed mammal of the steep Himalayan mountains.

• Sao Tome Ibis Bostrychia bocagei

  An ibis of São Tomé's lowland forests, with a glossy sheen that combines bark-brown and leaf-green colors.

• Long-tailed Ground Squirrel Urocitellus undulatus

  The long-tailed ground squirrel is a medium-sized, ground-dwelling squirrel of Central Asia. A Mongolian study found several genetically distinct regional groups.

• Saffron Toucanet Pteroglossus bailloni

  The Saffron Toucanet is a small toucan with a yellow head and breast and an olive back. It eats fruit and other food in the trees of southeastern South American forests.

• Papillose Woolly Bat Kerivoula papillosa

  This bat has tiny projections on its wing membrane. It flies through the lower forest at night and catches flying insects.

• White-eared Solitaire Entomodestes leucotis

  This thrush lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. A broad white cheek-and-ear stripe stands out against its dark head and underparts.

• Brush Deermouse Peromyscus boylii

  The brush deermouse has a brown back, a pale underside, and a long tail with a tufted tip. It is active at night and uses trees and rock crevices.

• Black-hooded Coucal Centropus steerii

  The Black-hooded Coucal is a cuckoo relative recorded on Mindoro in the Philippines. Records describe it moving through dense lowland-forest thickets along branches.

• Moroccan Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) grandis

  This jird occurs in Morocco. Moroccan samples form two lineages, and questions remain about the boundary between this species and the closely related Shaw’s Jird.

• Xingu Scale-backed Antbird Willisornis vidua

  The Xingu Scale-backed Antbird is an antbird of lowland forest in the Brazilian Amazon east of the Xingu River.

• Bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus

  The northern bushbuck is an antelope ranging from the Sahel to eastern and parts of central-southern Africa. Its white spots and stripes vary by region, and males have spiralled horns.

• Yellow-fronted Barbet Psilopogon flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Barbet is often seen high in forest trees. Its blue face and throat and yellow forehead stand out against a green body.

• Celebes Dwarf Squirrel Prosciurillus murinus

  This small squirrel lives in Sulawesi's forests. It has a dark-brown back, a gray belly, and a pale ring around each eye; it also uses tree trunks and the ground.

• Goldie's Lorikeet Glossoptilus goldiei

  Goldie's Lorikeet is a New Guinea parrot with a red crown, blue nape, and green body. It gathers at flowering trees and moves in flocks.

• North American Hoary Bat Aeorestes cinereus

  This bat is widespread in North America. It roosts alone in foliage in summer and is recorded flying above treetops and over water.

• Grey-headed Babbler Stachyris poliocephala

  The Grey-headed Babbler lives in forests from southern Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. It has a dark grey head with white lines and a chestnut body.

• Gleaning Deermouse Peromyscus spicilegus

  The gleaning deermouse has a relatively robust build and a back ranging from bright tawny to reddish ochre. Jalisco records span varied environments from sea level to 2,200 m.

• Asian Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus

  The Asian Woolly-necked Stork is a large wetland bird with a neck covered in fluffy white feathers. The current name Ciconia episcopus refers to the Asian species, distinct from the African C. microscelis.