SIRS, May I, in reference to the valuable contribution by Mr. Walpolc-Bond on the " Songs and Cries of the Nuthatch " in your August issue (pp. 70-r), offer mv notes on tile calls of the Hampshire Nuthatch and ask Mr. Walpolc-Bond whether his Sussex birds repeat their calls a definite number of times as the birds here seem to do. 1. A sort of level " T r i l l " or -whistle of. sometimes fewer but, no...

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