94 FAWNS. 



apart from both, and only visiting to give 

 them suck. Should a young one be caught, 

 its bleating will sometimes bring the old 

 one to the spot, but I never knew an 

 instance of one being seen abroad with its 

 dam, or of two young ones being seen 

 together. Their solitary habits are innate, 

 for if a fawn is taken young and suckled 

 by a sheep or goat, it will not for some 

 time associate with its foster dam, but as 

 soon as satisfied with sucking, seeks some 

 spot for concealment. It is amusing to see 

 them suck, all the while they keep leaping 

 up and crossing their fore legs rapidly over 

 each other. They are rather difiicult to 

 rear, as many, soon after they are caught, 

 go blind and die. 



In most of the hill states the musk-deer 

 is considered as royal property. In some, 

 the Rajahs keep men purposely to hunt it ; 

 and in Gurwhal a fine is imposed upon 

 any Puharrie who is known to have sold 

 a musk pod to a stranger ; the Rajah receiv- 

 ing them in heu of rent. 



