 Throughout the 19th century , several species were classified as congeneric with the dodo , including the Rodrigues solitaire and the Réunion solitaire , as Didus solitarius and Raphus solitarius , respectively ( Didus and Raphus being names for the dodo genus used by different authors of the time ) . An atypical 17th @-@ century description of a dodo and bones found on Rodrigues , now known to have belonged to the Rodrigues solitaire , led Abraham Dee Bartlett to name a new species , Didus nazarenus , in 1852 . Based on solitaire remains , it is now a synonym of that species . Crude drawings of the red rail of Mauritius were also misinterpreted as dodo species ; Didus broeckii and Didus herberti . 
