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• Northern Gray-bellied Squirrel Callosciurus caniceps

  

  Its coat changes with region and season, and the tail tip is black. From southern Myanmar through Thailand, it uses forests as well as bamboo-rich places and gardens.

• Fatu Hiva Monarch Pomarea whitneyi

  This monarch is endemic to Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas. Adults are glossy purplish-black and forage for insects and spiders in stream-centred valley forest.

• Ashy Tube-nosed Bat Murina feae

  This small bat is distributed in Cambodia, southern China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its soft gray coat is a useful field mark.

• Tepui Antpitta Myrmothera simplex

  An antpitta of the tepui region. It is dark brown above and white on the throat and belly; the breast band and flanks vary from cinnamon to gray among subspecies.

• Chapman's Rice Rat Oryzomys chapmani

  Its back ranges from brown to dark with black hairs; its ears are smallish and blackish, and the tail is uniformly colored. It lives in Mexican cloud forest and grassy areas in pine-oak forest, and is nocturnal and terrestrial.

• Yellow-legged Tinamou Crypturellus noctivagus

  A 2016 taxonomic reassessment separated two Brazilian forms previously grouped together as Yellow-legged Tinamou: Crypturellus noctivagus and C. zabele. This entry follows the Atlantic Forest form, C. noctivagus. A 2019 distribution study used the broader earlier concept, so its map should not be read as the range of C. noctivagus alone under the later treatment.

• Cyprus Mouse Mus cypriacus

  This mouse was described as an endemic species of Cyprus. It has agouti-patterned fur on the back, and the original description recorded captures in abandoned cultivated plots in the island's south.

• Nacunda Nighthawk Chordeiles nacunda

  The Nacunda Nighthawk lives in open habitats in northern and eastern South America, catching insects in flight around dusk.

• Southern Amazon Red Squirrel Sciurus (Urosciurus) spadiceus

  The Southern Amazon red squirrel lives in lowland Amazonian forest. It eats nuts, and its coat varies among individuals.

• Masked Fruiteater Pipreola pulchra

  This fruiteater is restricted to montane forest on the eastern Andes of Peru, using the canopy and subcanopy.

• Grey Long-eared Bat Plecotus austriacus

  The grey long-eared bat has very long ears and catches moths and other prey in flight over open grassland.

• Black-capped Kingfisher Halcyon pileata

  A large kingfisher with a black cap, blue back, and red bill. In Hong Kong it is mainly seen at coastal wetlands during passage and winter.

• Black-footed Colilargo Oligoryzomys nigripes

  The black-footed colilargo is a small rodent with a tail longer than its head and body combined and relatively short, broad hind feet. A southern Brazilian forest study found it associated with dense scrub.

• Turquoise-winged Parrotlet Forpus spengeli

  Forpus spengeli is a small parrot recorded in northern Colombia. A Colombian taxonomic and distribution review reports it from dry savanna, open woodland, and scrub.

• Sand-colored Metad Millardia gleadowi

  This small rodent is reported from northwestern India. It is sand-brown above and white below, and the account describes it as nocturnal and burrow-dwelling.

• Slaty Becard Pachyramphus spodiurus

  A tityrid of the foothills of northwestern Peru. Males are dark, females cinnamon-rufous, and pairs use the upper levels of semi-deciduous forest.

• Tropical Ground Squirrel Notocitellus adocetus

  The tropical ground squirrel has a grizzled black-and-tan back and a long, slender tail. The genus has an unusually semi-arboreal body plan for ground squirrels; a western Mexican study found this species eating seeds and fruit pulp.

• Madagascar Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides radiatus

  This raptor is endemic to Madagascar and uses its long legs to search tree trunks and crevices. It also soars slowly between trees while looking for prey.

• Strelkov's Long-eared Bat Plecotus strelkovi

  Plecotus strelkovi is a long-eared bat of the dry mountain ranges of Central Asia. The revision describes a gray coat without a warm brown cast and yellowish-white underparts.

• Sooty-capped Puffbird Bucco noanamae

  Endemic to Colombia, this puffbird has a dark cap, white throat, and broad black breast band. It waits on a perch, then catches insects in the forest understory.

• Caatinga Laucha Calomys expulsus

  The Caatinga Laucha is a vesper mouse from central and northeastern Brazil. It occurs in open grasslands and forest edges in the Cerrado and Caatinga, as well as cultivated fields, and lives on the ground and eats seeds.

• Spotted Fantail Rhipidura perlata

  The Spotted Fantail is marked by fine spots on its breast and an active, tail-fanning way of pursuing insects. It forages inside forest rather than in more open areas.

• Libyan Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) libycus

  The Libyan jird is a rodent of dry areas from North Africa to the Middle East. It has a sandy back and pale feet, and makes burrows near plants.

• Mountain Fulvetta Alcippe peracensis

  A grey head and a dark line running from above the eye toward the nape help identify this bird. It eats insects in evergreen forest and may occur in small groups.