A nice easy one for a change' That, we suspect, is what many contestants thought as they hastily wrote 'Shore Lark' on their postcards. The votes were as follows: Shore Lark Eremophila alpestris (50%) Temminck's Horned Lark E. bilopha (50%)The entrants who looked that little bit longer and more closely at plate 135, and identified it as a Temminck's Horned Lark, were right; this one was photographed by

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