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Edmund Selous : Birdwatching

'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and all we have about is habits is a note by the bird collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in his third volume (Ornithologie du Peru)—the only work I know on peruvian birds [...] I daresay you have read Edmund Selous' account of his observations of the bird [the stone curlew] in "Bird Watching". I think the best account I have read of the bird—at all events the best written, is by Trevor-Battye in a little book of his called "Prose Idylls". Battye was a good observer and a charming writer but he is to lazy or too well off to do much.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson      Print: Book

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