The animals of a country at any given geological period; so called from the mythological fauns, who were the patrons of wild animals.
“Nor less the place of curious plant he knows—
He both his Flora and his Fauna shows.”
Crabbe: Bcrough.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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