The Fallow fawns are born in May or June in a close retreat far in among the bracken. Though mostly there is only one at a birth, there are frequently two, and rarely three. The fawn is capable of taking care of itself when only a few hours old. As illustrating this point, we may quote an incident narrated by Mr. John Watson, who has written intimately of the wild life of Westmorland. He says: "Once we came suddenly upon a pretty little soft-eyed creature, evidently only a few hours old. It squatted closely as we stood over it, but when aware that it was observed, feigned death in the most amusing manner, only with the softest and most wide-open eyes imaginable. As we stooped towards it, with half a dozen bounds it cleared the brake, and as a rapid stream stopped its further progress, jumped in, and, after swimming about twenty yards, came quickly ashore. It then trotted back to its bed among the fern; and yet it is probable that this fawn had not previously used its legs, and had certainly never seen water." [Illustration: _Pl. 82._ _K 132._ *Fallow Deer Hind.* The hind is smaller than the Buck, and of more slender build.] [Illustration: _Pl. 83._ _K 133._ *Roe Deer Fawn.* Watching for its mother from its birthplace.] The name Fallow is the Anglo-Saxon _fealewe_, and indicates the gilvous colour of the lighter race. Gray in 1843 separated the species from the Linnean genus _Cervus_ under its species name of _Dama_. The modern effort to get back to original species names under the rules of priority has caused this Deer to be dubbed _Dama dama_ in the newest catalogues. We have preferred to retain the Linnean _Cervus dama_, but our readers can say _Dama dama_ if they like it better. *Roe Deer* (_Capreolus capraea_, Gray). A third species of Deer, the Roe, is now to be found only in our northern mountain woods. It is the smallest and prettiest of our native species, and appears to have been formerly the most widely distributed of the three (though never an Irish species), but to have been driven further and further north by the advance of population and cultivation in the south. Even so, quiet ramblers in the thicker woods and plantations of the New Forest have a slender prospect of seeing it. About the beginning of the nineteenth century, Lord Portarlington introduced Roe to the woods of Milton Abbas, in Dorset, where they prospered and increased. In the year 1876, or thereabouts, it is said that some of these made their way across country for twenty-five miles and settled in the New Forest. There are very few of them, and this fact combined with their cleverly elusive movements in the dense coverts they affect, makes the chance of seeing them very remote, more particularly as the Roe is nocturnal in its habits.