Turdus Solitarius (Latin forsolitarythrush) was aconstellation created by French astronomerPierre Charles Le Monnier in 1776 from stars ofHydra's tail. It was named after theRodrigues solitaire, an extinctflightless bird that was endemic to the island ofRodrigues East of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.[1] It was replaced by another constellation,Noctua (the Owl), inA Celestial Atlas (1822) by the British amateur astronomerAlexander Jamieson, but neither was adopted by the International Astronomical Union among its88 recognized constellations.
TheIAU Working Group on Star Names approved the name Solitaire for the starE Hydrae in 2024, after the obsolete constellation.[2]
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