Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVIII. The Calandra Lark, The Short-Toed Lark, The Black-Eared Wheatear

(Plates 62-73) W E illustrate this month three South European passerine birds all characteristic of more or less arid country, the two larks especially so, and all photographed during the past summer on the Crau, the remarkable tract of stony, desert-like country lying between the mouth of the Rhone and Marseilles (Plate 69). The Calandra (Melanocorypha calandra) is a large, heavily-built, stout-b...