Frank Heath writing in The Little Guide, Wiltshire, (first published March 1911 – revised by R.L.P. Jowitt, 1949), referring to Salisbury Plain, noted:
Many famous birds, once denizens of the Plain, have now vanished for ever. Chief among these was the bustard, which has not been seen since 1871. Chafin, writing about twenty years before, tells of putting up no less than twenty-five of them at once. There is a stuffed group of them to be seen in the Salisbury Museum.