3196 THE ZooLocist—Aveust, 1872. 
“ Entomological Nomenclature-—The undersigned, considering the confu- 
sion with which entomological nomenclature is threatened (and from which 
it is already to no small extent suffering) by the reinstatement of forgotten 
names to supersede those in universal employment, urge upon entomologists 
the desirability of ignoring the names so brought forward, until such time 
as the method of dealing with them shall be settled by a common agree- 
ment. 
H. W. Bates 
Alfred R. Wallace 
William C. Hewitson 
Francis P. Pascoe 
T. Vernon Wollaston 
John A. Power 
Samuel Stevens 
Edward Sheppard 
Ferdinand Grut 
J. W. Dunning 
Frederic Moore 
Frederick Bond 
J. Jenner Weir 
E. Shepherd 
Edward W. Janson 
Edward Newman 
E. T. Higgins 
R. F. Logan 
J. Greene 
Thomas H. Briggs 
W. C. Boyd 
Howard Vaughan 
W. Arnold Lewis 
Prof. Westwood stated that he had recently published some remarks on 
the law of priority in nomenclature in the ‘Academy’; he considered a 
law similar to that which limits adverse claims to real property in this 
country to a period of twenty years, might with equal advantage be applied 
in Zoology —R. ML. 
Pallas’s Sand Grouse in Scotland— Those of your readers who are 
interested in Scottish Ornithology will, I daresay, be glad to hear that a 
remarkable Asiatic bird—Pallas’s sand grouse, a sudden irruption of which 
occurred in Great Britain in 1863—has this year again made its appearance. 
On Tuesday, the 25th of last month, one was seen basking on a sandy 
pathway above the banks of the river near the town of Girvan. 
disturbed, it flew over an adjoining wall, on the other side of which there 
were three more. A few days later—namely, on Saturday, the 29th— 
another was seen near the same place; and I may add that no doubt need 
be entertained as to the identity of the species, as in both instances the 
birds were approached within a distance of only a few yards. TI shall be 
very glad to learn whether these birds have been seen in any other part of 
the West of Scotland.—Robert Gray ; Glasgow, July 2, 1872.—From the 
‘Glasgow Herald.’ 
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