Accepted:

None

Unaccepted:

None

Not yet reviewed (pending historical records and unsubmitted reports):

see account in Palmer 1949, page 172

Note: Extinct. No certain occurrences of the Heath Hen, a subspecies of the Greater Prairie-Chicken, are known from Maine. Palmer (1949) also describes attempted introductions of the prairie bird, presumably subspecies T. c. pinnatus.

References:

Applegate, R.D. 1993. Did the Heath Hen occur in Maine? Maine Naturalist 1(2):1–4.

Gross, A.O. 1928. The Heath Hen. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 6:489–588.

Palmer, R. S. 1949. Maine Birds. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 102.