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Pezophaps solitaria
Solitaire Sol`i*taire", n. [F. See Solitary.] 1. A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit. --Pope. 2. A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone. Diamond solitaires blazing on his breast and wrists. --Mrs. R. H. Davis. 3. A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by ``jumping,' as in draughts. 4. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A large extinct bird (Pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary. (b) Any species of American thrushlike birds of the genus Myadestes. They are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. Called also fly-catching thrush. A West Indian species (Myadestes sibilans) is called the invisible bird.

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- The Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian...
- Columbiformes and contains the monotypic genera Pezophaps and Raphus. The former contains the species Pezophaps solitaria (the Rodrigues solitaire), the latter...
- solitaire, Threskiornis solitarius, an extinct bird Rodrigues solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria, an extinct bird Solitaire (ballet), a 1956 ballet by Kenneth...
- Milne-Edwards, 1868 Aphanapteryx broeckii Milne-Edwards, 1869 Pezophaps broeckei (Schlegel, 1873) Pezophaps herbertii (Schlegel, 1873) Aphanapteryx broecki Günther...
- steamer ducks (Tachyeres), geese and swans (Anserinae), the solitaire (Pezophaps), sheathbills (Chionis), some guans (Crax) and stone curlews (Burhinus)...
- with the few remains then available of the extinct Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) they concluded that the two were closely related. Strickland...
- (Nicobar pigeon) Genus †Raphus (dodo, extinct late 17th century) Genus †Pezophaps (Rodrigues solitaire, extinct c. 1730) Genus †Bountyphaps Worthy & Wragg...
- 1848 Raphus solitarius Sélys, 1848 Didus apterornis (Schlegel, 1854) Pezophaps borbonica Bonaparte, 1854 Ornithaptera borbonica (Bonaparte, 1854) Apterornis...
- not been seen flying) Dodo, Raphus cucullatus † Rodrigues solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria † Viti Levu giant pigeon, Natunaornis gigoura † Saint Helena...
- slightly smaller than the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) and is the first giant flightless pigeon to be discovered on...