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Solitaire

                        SOLITAIRE, common name applied to various species of the Myadestes genus of
                        American thrush, family Turdidae. In the U.S. the genus is represented by one
                        species, Townsend?s solitaire, M. townsendi. Members of the species, found chiefly
                        in the Rocky Mts., are largely brownish gray in color, with a white eye ring and a
                        buff wing patch. All members of the genus Myadestes are superb singers. 

                        Solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria, was also the name of an extinct, flightless bird
                        resembling the dodo. It inhabited Rodrigues, an island in the Indian Ocean, until the
                        last half of the 18th century.