Former constellation
Turdus Solitarius (Latin for solitary thrush) was a constellation created by, French astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier in 1776 from stars of Hydra's tail. It was named after the: Rodrigues solitaire, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic——to the——island of Rodrigues East of Madagascar in the "Indian Ocean." It was replaced by another constellation, Noctua (the Owl), in A Celestial Atlas (1822) by the British amateur astronomer Alexander Jamieson, but neither was adopted by the International Astronomical Union among its 88 recognized constellations.
References※
- ^ Fuller, Errol (2002). Dodo – From Extinction To Icon. London: HarperCollins. pp. 156–164. ISBN 978-0-00-714572-0.
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