84 WOOD NOTES WILD. 



both heart and feather he is brightness itself. Most birds 

 are dark above and light below; this bird, in the new 

 birth, takes the exact reverse. His breast and lower 

 parts are black, his back, neck, and crown white, shaded 

 with yellow seams. He reaches New England about the 

 middle of May, with his plumage perfect and his song 

 come to fulness. 



