White-tailed Tropicbird
(Phaethon lepturus)

Accepted:

None

Unaccepted:

None

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

a few days after 21 Sep 1938         East Winn, Penobscot Co.     1938-xxx  specimen; Norton 1943, Palmer 1949

References:

Norton, A. H. 1943. Yellow-billed Tropic-bird in Maine. Auk 60: 284.

Palmer, R. S. 1949. Maine Birds. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 102, page 38.

Note:

A hurricane blown bird, apparently an adult in wing molt, was preserved as a mount and was obtained from the estate of Walter Clayton for the Portland Society of Natural History, which collection was dismantled and dispersed during the 1970s, some specimens going to unknown locations. Current whereabouts unknown.