" It was a dramatically patterned robin-sized songbird with a black hood, white waistcoat, and rich russet sides—a bird whose cheerful call of drink-your-teeeaaaaa was far more melodious than the sharp two-syllable exclamation towhee, or the sound that had provided its other name, chewink. "

― Michael Sims , The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond