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• White-bellied Treepie Dendrocitta leucogastra

  

  A corvid with a long tail and white belly, it lives in the humid hill forests of the Western Ghats.

• Montserrat Oriole Icterus oberi

  The Montserrat Oriole is endemic to the Caribbean island of Montserrat and breeds in its hill forests.

• Newton's Yellow-breasted Sunbird Anabathmis newtonii

  This species is endemic to São Tomé. A 2001–2002 survey reported higher mist-net capture rates in mossy montane primary forest and caught more, larger males than females.

• Green-backed White-eye Zosterops xanthochroa

  The Green-backed White-eye (Zosterops xanthochroa) is endemic to Grande Terre, New Caledonia. Its head, throat, breast, wings, and back are green, with a white ring around each eye and white on the lower belly and undertail. It uses dense forest as well as open habitats and eats insects and fruit.

• Varzea Piculet Picumnus varzeae

  This tiny woodpecker is 8–9 cm long. It occurs in seasonally flooded forest along the Amazon in Brazil, and published natural-history records are limited.

• Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura

  The Green-backed Camaroptera is a small, rounded bird of thickets, with red eyes. The eastern coastal group is green-backed, while birds elsewhere are gray-backed; some authorities treat the groups as separate species.

• Chinese Thrush Turdus mupinensis

  The Chinese Thrush is a thrush that breeds in central China. Dark spotting stands out on its underparts. It is usually unobtrusive and shy, though it can be easier to see in cold weather.

• Spectacled Finch Callacanthis burtoni

  A female observed in western Bhutan had conspicuous yellow-orange skin around the eye and a heavy yellowish bill.

• Malabar Whistling Thrush Myophonus horsfieldii

  The Malabar Whistling Thrush has a dark head and back with bright blue on its body, shoulders, and forehead. It lives in riverine forest and dense undergrowth in peninsular India, where its clear whistling calls are often heard.

• Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus

  The Eastern Towhee is a sparrow-sized bird of woodland undergrowth and thickets. Males are black and reddish-brown; females replace the black with brown, and their leaf-litter scratching is often heard.

• Cave Swiftlet Collocalia linchi

  The Cave Swiftlet is a small swiftlet found on islands including Java. Its green gloss and square-ended tail are useful field marks.

• Spot-tailed Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza trinotata

  The Spot-tailed Sparrowhawk is a small hawk found on Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. Large white spots on the tail are a useful feature of the immature bird described in the source.

• Ornate Honeyeater Melidectes torquatus

  The Ornate Melidectes is a honeyeater of New Guinea's mountains. A nominate-subspecies male has conspicuous yellow-orange bare skin around the eye and a white-scaled back, and searches for food in the canopy.

• Blue Swallow Hirundo atrocaerulea

  An African migrant with glossy blue-black plumage and a long tail. At its breeding grounds it nests in holes in the ground.

• Black-lored Yellowthroat Geothlypis auricularis

  A small bird of the Tumbesian region of Ecuador and Peru. Males have black around the eye; females show a yellow brow and eyering. It occurs in low thickets and open-woodland edges.

• Scale-throated Earthcreeper Upucerthia dumetaria

  In northwestern Patagonia, this ground-dwelling bird uses forest edges and shrub steppe. It walks as it forages and nests in tunnels dug in soil.

• Chinese Crested Tern Thalasseus bernsteini

  The Chinese Crested Tern is a seabird with a black cap and yellow bill that gathers with other terns.

• Ihering's Antwren Myrmotherula iheringi

  This small antwren occurs in lowland eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and the southern Amazonian region of Brazil. Males have dark breasts and white wing spots, while females are lighter grey above with yellowish-brown underparts. It searches leaves and vines for insects in the forest understory.

• Olive-headed Greenbul Arizelocichla striifacies

  Arizelocichla striifacies is a bulbul of eastern African mountain forests, with an olive head and white cheek streaks. The IOC treatment includes birds formerly called A. olivaceiceps within this species.

• Swee Waxbill Coccopygia melanotis

  A small waxbill with striking red and black tail and bill colours. It feeds mainly on grass seeds and lives along woodland edges and in scrub in southern Africa.

• South Georgia Diving Petrel Pelecanoides georgicus

  The South Georgia Diving Petrel is a diving seabird with dark upperparts and a white underside. It is thought to remain near its breeding colonies, although its at-sea range is not well known.

• Himalayan Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus

  The Himalayan Cuckoo breeds in eastern Asia and moves from Southeast Asia to northern Australia for the winter. Males are gray, with white spots on the underparts.

• Masked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus perspicillatus

  This laughingthrush is marked by long legs and tail and a black pattern around the eyes. In Hong Kong, small flocks live among vegetation in parks and villages.

• Aldabra Fody Foudia aldabrana

  This small bird lives on Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles. Males have a bright red head, neck, and breast, sharply set off from a sulphur-yellow belly. Skerrett’s 1999 article also discusses the older name F. eminentissima aldabrana; this entry follows the pool name F. aldabrana.