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ROLL OF HONOIIE. 



Lieut. -Colonel Herbert Hastings Harington was born at Lucknow 

 on the IGtli Januar}*- 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 Regi- 

 ment. 



Two years later he was appointed to the Indian Staff Corps and 

 joined the 92nd Punjabis with whom he served for over 20 years in 

 Burmah, and in this country also he for 5 jenvs was attached to the 

 Burmese Police. 



In December 1914 he was promoted to Lieart.-Colonel, and in 

 February 1916 was gazetted to the command of the 62nd Punjabis, 

 and it was whilst leading this Regiment into action in Mesopo- 

 tamia that he was killed on the 8th 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 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 observ- 

 ation they displayed. These articles he reproduced in book form in 

 1908-9 adding a valuable table shewing the distribution of Burmese 

 birds. 



He also contributed articles from time to time to the "Ibis,"' 

 Bombay Natural History Journal, and other periodicals of which 

 the most important was his review of the Timeliidae appearing in 

 the Bombay Journal during 1914-15. 



Colonel Haring-ton Avas the discoverer of a number of new forms 

 and several birds have been named after him by various ornitholo- 

 gists in recognition of the good work he did. Amongst these may 

 be mentioned Polionetta haringtoni (Oates) ; Oreicola f. haringtoni 

 (Ogilvie-Grant) ; Pomaterliinus e. haringtoni (Stuart Baker) and 

 Garridus haringtoni (Sharpe). 



