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• Dot-winged Antwren Microrhopias quixensis

  

  This antwren lives in humid forests from Central America into northern South America. Males are black with white wing markings; females have a slate-gray back and rufous underparts.

• 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.

• Crow-billed Drongo Dicrurus annectans

  Singapore's National Parks Board describes winter records in the country. The bird is mostly black with a black bill and uses shaded understory in wooded parks and waterside trees.

• Red Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) ruber

  The red myotis has bright cinnamon-red fur on its back and yellowish fur underneath. It is recorded in Brazil's Atlantic Forest and Cerrado, and has been captured in forest and building settings.

• Ochre-breasted Brush Finch Atlapetes semirufus

  The Ochre-breasted Brushfinch ranges from northern Venezuela into north-central Colombia. It uses montane forest understory and edges at about 1,000–3,500 m.

• Indian Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista philippensis

  The Indian giant flying squirrel lives in tree cavities and canopies, gliding between trees on a membrane that stretches from its forelegs to its hind legs.

• Saipan Reed-warbler Acrocephalus hiwae

  This reed-warbler lives on Saipan. A 1998 report records it in reed marshes, forest edges, thicket-meadow mosaics and forest openings on the island.

• Steppe Lemming Lagurus lagurus

  The steppe lemming is a small rodent that eats grasses and herbs in Eurasian grasslands and uses burrows in the ground. A dark stripe runs down the middle of its back.

• Snowy Plover Anarhynchus nivosus

  The Snowy Plover is a small, sand-colored shorebird that searches open beaches and salt-lake shores for prey. It makes a well-hidden nest on sandy beaches.

• Subsaharan Pygmy Mouse Mus (Nannomys) musculoides

  The Subsaharan Pygmy Mouse is a very small mouse. At Chappal Waddi in Nigeria, it was common in savanna grassland and less common in the forest zone.

• Brown-banded Puffbird Notharchus ordii

  It is black and white, with a dark brown-black band between the white throat and belly. It is patchily distributed in Amazonian lowlands and is described as generally rare in forest on poor soils such as sandy patches.

• Beelzebub Tube-nosed Bat Murina beelzebub

  This tube-nosed bat is recorded in Vietnam. Silver guard hairs run through its dark coat, and its belly hairs have white tips.

• Brown-backed Mockingbird Mimus dorsalis

  The Brown-backed Mockingbird inhabits grasslands and shrub-filled ravines in Argentina’s puna and pre-puna. It has a brown back, white eyebrow, and white markings on the wings.

• White-tailed antelope squirrel Ammospermophilus leucurus

  A ground squirrel that moves with its tail held over its back, it lives in deserts and dry shrublands.

• Lilac-tailed Parrotlet Touit batavicus

  This small parrot occurs in northern South America and Trinidad. Its yellow forehead and short lilac tail are distinctive, and it feeds on plant foods in forest canopies.

• Collared Lemming Dicrostonyx groenlandicus

  This stocky Arctic lemming has a thick coat that changes with the seasons, becoming white in winter.

• Palm Cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus

  The Palm Cockatoo is a large black parrot of forests in New Guinea and northern Australia; it eats nuts and fruit.

• Cape Spiny Mouse Acomys (Subacomys) subspinosus

  The Cape spiny mouse is a small spiny mouse of rocky areas and fynbos in southwestern South Africa. Seeds make up most of its recorded diet.

• Dusky-capped Greenlet Hylophilus hypoxanthus

  This small bird forages in the canopy and subcanopy of Amazonian forest, often with mixed-species flocks. Its range spans several countries.

• Findley's Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) findleyi

  Findley’s Myotis is a small bat endemic to the Tres Marías Islands off Mexico’s Pacific coast. It has dark fur and feeds on insects.

• Vireo chivi Vireosylva chivi

  This small vireo ranges through South American lowlands and foothills. It is olive above and white below, with no wingbars; the amount of yellow varies.

• Svynnerton's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus vexillarius

  Swynnerton's bush squirrel is recorded from mountains in Tanzania. Specimens from the West Usambara Mountains are noted for orange feet and a tail tip.

• Mallee Emu-wren Stipiturus mallee

  The Mallee Emu-wren is a small bird with a very long, filament-like tail. It moves quickly through low vegetation, and the male has a blue face and breast.

• 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.