'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.'
