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years from 1883 he was an Extra Queen's Foreio^n Service 

 Messenger, and resided at Darmstadt. Snbseqnenth^ he 

 became a regular Foreign Service Messenger, which post 

 he held till 1913, when he was forced to retire owing to bad 

 health. He received the coronation medals of both King 

 Edward VII. and George V. for his services. 



Though he never published anything, he was always 

 interested in birds and their eggs, and in his younger days 

 he amassed a considerable collection of eggs, especially of 

 the Birds of Prey. He was elected a Member of the Union 

 m 1905. 



Herbert Hastings Harington. 



It is with deep regret that we have to record the death 

 on the battle-field of another Member of the Union. 

 Col. Harington, well-known to many of us both personally 

 and from his excellent work on Indian birds, was killed 

 in action in Mesopotamia on the 8th of March last. 



Lieut.-Colonel Herbert Hastings Harington was born 

 at Lucknow on the 16th of January, 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 which regiment he served for over twenty 

 years in Burma and in India; also for five years he was 

 attached to the Burmese Police. 



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

 in February 1916 was gazetted to the command of the 

 62nd Punjabis, and it was whilst leading this Regiment 

 into action in Mesopotamia that he was killed on the 

 8th of March. 



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 Burma that he really took up Ornithology 

 seriously. His first articles were written for the Kanguou 



