solitaire

Extinct flightless bird Pezophaps solitarius of the dodo family, Raphidae, in the pigeon order Columbiformes. It seems to have been restricted to the island of Rodriguez in the Indian Ocean, and was described 1708. In height the male was about 83 cm/33 in and weighed about 20 kg/44 lb; the legs were longer and the bill smaller than those of the dodo.