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Top: Male Little Bustard. Bottom: Great Bustard (Otis tardis). 1835. The Great Bustard became extinct in Britain in about 1830 as its habitat disappeared. A programme of reintroducing it with Russian stock is in progress. From "The British Cyclopaedia of Arts and Sciences", Charles Partington (London, 1835). Hand-coloured engraving.

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