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• Black-wristed Deermouse Peromyscus melanocarpus

  

  This small mouse lives in mountain forests of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Dark fur on its wrists and lower forelegs stands out; it forages at night for seeds and other foods on the forest floor.

• Brown Barbet Caloramphus fuliginosus

  The Brown Barbet is a small barbet of Borneo's woodlands. Its brown back, red throat and upper breast, and white belly stand out, and it feeds mainly on fruit.

• Vancouver Island Marmot Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis

  The Vancouver Island marmot lives in mountain meadows on Canada's Vancouver Island. It has brown fur with white patches and hibernates underground.

• Pygmy Lorikeet Charminetta wilhelminae

  The Pygmy Lorikeet is a small parrot of New Guinea's mountain forests. It feeds on nectar and pollen, often gathering in flowering tree canopies.

• Golden Oldfield Mouse Thomasomys aureus

  This rodent is recorded in the mountains of eastern Ecuador. It has long fur, a grizzled yellow-brown back, and a paler underside.

• Chestnut-rumped Babbler Stachyris maculata

  The Chestnut-rumped Babbler is a small bird studied in lowland forests of Borneo and the Malay Peninsula. Researchers recorded it foraging among suspended dead leaves and showing bluish skin on the head while calling.

• Junín Red Squirrel Sciurus (Hadrosciurus) pyrrhinus

  The Junín red squirrel is an arboreal squirrel recorded in Peru. Its back is reddish brown, while the underside ranges from white to more reddish shades.

• Beijing Babbler Rhopophilus pekinensis

  The Beijing Babbler is a resident of northern China and North Korea. It has a long tail, a streaked grey-brown back, a white throat, and rusty flanks.

• Labrador Collared Lemming Dicrostonyx hudsonius

  This lemming changes coat color with the seasons: white in winter and gray to brown in warmer seasons. It burrows in the tundra of northeastern Canada and eats grasses and shrub buds.

• Jobi Manucode Manucodia jobiensis

  The Jobi Manucode is a bird-of-paradise with blue-violet iridescence and red eyes. It feeds on fruit and arthropods in lowland forest on northern New Guinea and Yapen Island.

• Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel Callospermophilus saturatus

  This ground squirrel lives in the Cascade Mountains. It has a white-striped back and russet shoulders, and the current taxonomy places it in Callospermophilus.

• Grey-cheeked Warbler Seicercus poliogenys

  This leaf warbler occurs in mountains from China and the Himalayas into northern Indochina. Its head and cheeks are gray, and it searches for insects in montane broadleaf forest.

• Bunny Rat Reithrodon auritus

  Its back has mixed gray and black fur, its underside is pale gray, and its large rounded ears are furry. It lives in open grasslands and pampas, digging or using burrows and natural rock holes.

• Forest Fody Foudia omissa

  This small bird is endemic to Madagascar. The breeding-plumage male has red on the head, throat, upper breast, and rump, with dark streaks on the olive-brown back. Females and males outside the breeding season are described separately, with olive-brown upperparts and a pale buff belly. It searches trees and shrubs for seeds, fruit, and insects.

• Taurus Ground Squirrel Spermophilus taurensis

  The Taurus ground squirrel is restricted to the Taurus Mountains of Turkey. It inhabits montane areas above 1,000 m and is active by day.

• Yellow-breasted Boubou Laniarius atroflavus

  A montane forest bird of western Cameroon and southeastern Nigeria whose pairs duet.

• Tatra Pine Vole Microtus (Microtus) tatricus

  The Tatra pine vole is recorded in upper montane forest and alpine meadow in the Tatra Mountains. Its back is light reddish brown, and records include rocky debris near streams.

• Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus thoracicus

  The male has a black head with a small red crown patch and a yellowish-green back. In peat-swamp and heath forests, at edges, and in coastal vegetation, it eats fruit, insects, and spiders.

• Nayarit mouse Peromyscus simulus

  The Nayarit mouse is recorded on the coastal lowlands of Nayarit in western Mexico. Specimens come from tropical forest and moist riverine settings.

• Malagasy Pond Heron Ardeola idae

  In breeding plumage it is entirely white, with long plumes from the head down the nape. Birds from Madagascar migrate to mainland Africa after breeding.

• Baker's Small-toothed Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys bakeri

  Baker's Small-toothed Harvest Mouse was described from the mountains of central Guerrero, Mexico. The original paper records it in pine-oak and cloud forest.

• Cinnamon Ibon Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus

  This sparrow-family bird lives in the cloud-forest canopy of Mindanao. Its skull has a feature also found in seed-eating sparrows.

• Hairy-eared Akodont Thalpomys lasiotis

  This small rodent occurs in the Cerrado of central Brazil. Most capture records are from open grassland, including sites with scattered low shrubs.

• Scrub Euphonia Euphonia affinis

  The Scrub Euphonia is a small bird of woodland, forest edges and semi-open habitats from Mexico through Central America. It is about 9 cm long, weighs around 10 g and eats fruit.