The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

FAWN

—is the young of the BUCK and DOE, called a fawn during the first year. A fawn is secreted by the dam in the fern, or long grass, with great care, during the first weeks, and seldom accompanies the mother but by night. In royal PARKS and CHACES, a certain number are annually killed when fawns of about three months old, to prevent the district from being overstocked; this is generally done by COURSING with GREYHOUNDS, which is most excellent sport, the greyhounds being frequently beat.