 Historically, many different groups have been named for both the dodo and the Rodrigues solitaire, not all grouping them together.Most recently, it is considered that the two birds can be classified in Columbidae, often under the subfamily Raphinae.The first person to suggest a close affinity to the doves was Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, whose opinions were then supported by Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville.