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Bustards, 1835. Top: male Little Bustard. Bottom: Great Bustard (Otis tardis). 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, published by Charles Partington. (London, 1835).