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 THE LATE LIEUT.-COL. H. H. HARINGTON. 



LlEUT.-COLONEL HERBERT HASTINGS HaRINGTON, who 



was killed, in Mesopotamia on March 8th, 1916, was 

 bom at Lucknow on January IGth, 1868, the son of 

 Mr. Herbert Harington of the Oudh Commission. 

 Educated at Malvern, he entered the Militia and in 1888 

 was gazetted a subaltern in the Welsh Regiment. Two 

 years later he was appointed to the Indian Staff Corps 

 and joined the 92nd Punjabis, with whom he served for 

 over twenty years in Burmali, and in this country also 

 he for five years was attached to the Burmese Police. In 

 December 1914 he was promoted to Lieut. -Colonel, and 

 in February 1916 was gazetted to the command of the 

 62nd Punjabis, and it was whilst leading this regiment 

 into action that he was killed. 



In 1909 Colonel Harington married Dorothy, the 

 youngest daughter of the Hon. Walter Pepys, by whom 

 he had a son and two daughters. 



Colonel Harington had always been a keen lover of 

 nature and natural history generally, but it was not until 

 he went to Burmah that he really took up ornithology 

 seriously. His first articles were written for the Rangoon 

 Gazette and soon attracted notice on account of the careful 

 and accurate observation they displayed. These articles 

 he reproduced in book form in 1908-9, adding a valuable 

 table showing the distribution of Burmese birds. He 

 also contributed from time to time to the Ibis, the 

 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society and other 

 periodicals, the most important cf these contributions 

 being his review of the Timeliidse which appeared in 

 the last named Journal during 1914-15. 



Colonel Harington was the discoverer of a number of 

 new forms, and several birds have been named after him 

 in recognition of the good work he did. Amongst these 

 may be mentioned Polionetta Jmrin/jtoni Gates ; Oreicola f. 

 haringtoni Hartert ; Potnaiorhinus e. haringtoni Stuart 

 Baker; Garrulus haringtoni Sharpe. E.C.S.B. 



