Steller’s Eider
(Polysticta stelleri)

Accepted:

None

Unaccepted:

None

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

3 Dec 1926 Scarborough, Cumberland Co. 1926-xxx specimen (lost?); Palmer 1949

References:

Palmer, R. S. 1949. Maine Birds. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 102, page 116.

Notes:

The 1926 bird was an adult male shot by Nicholas Davis and prepared as a mount that Henry H. Brock obtained for his collection. Most of Brock's collection later became part of the Portland Society of Natural History collection, which was dismantled and dispersed in the 1970s, with some specimens going to unknown locations. Ralph Palmer saw the specimen in 1947, vouching for its identification. An unlabeled mount of an adult male at the Maine State Museum might be this bird.