It turned out that both birds were members of the columbidae family (pigeons and turtledoves), and formed a subclade within it. This clade, which unites the dodo and the solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria, the hermit dodo, an extinct flightless bird of the pigeon family), was even given a new name to avoid further confusion in nomenclature: Raphina. Thus, the mysterious bird was just one species all along, and not many, as was previously believed.
