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. 
