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vember, and up to and inclusive of the 10th day of December, or shall expose 
for sale, or have in his or her possession, any green moose or deer skin, or 
fresh venison, save only in the months aforesaid, and up to and inclusive of 
the LOth of December. 
WILD FAWN AND GRAY RABBITS. 
Sec. 2. No person shall at any time kill any wild fawn during the periods 
when such fawn is in its spotted coat, or expose for sale, or have at any time 
ion, any spotted wild fawn skin, or any gray rabbit, from 
the Ist of February to the Ist of November. 
in his or her posse: 
WILD PIGEONS. 
Sec. 3. No person shall kill, or catch, or discharge any fire-arm at any wild 
pigeon while in any nesting-ground, or break up or in any manner disturb 
such nesting-ground, or the nests or birds therein, or discharge any fire-arm 
at any distance within a quarter of a mile of such nesting-place at such pigeon. 
WILD-FOWL. 
Src. 4. No person shall kill, or expose for sale, or have in his possession 
after the same is killed, any wood duck (commonly called black duck), gray 
duck (commonly called summer duck), mallard, or teal duck, between the Ist 
day of February and the 15th day of August in each year. No person shall 
at any time kill any wild duck, goose, or other wild-fowl, with or hy means of 
the device or instrument known as swivel or punt gun, or with or by means 
of any gun other than such guns as are habitually raised at arm’s length and 
fired from the shoulder, or shall use any such device, or instrument, or gun 
other than such gun as aforesaid, with intent to kill any such duck, goose, or 
other wild-fowl. No person shall in any manner kill, or molest with intent 
to kill, any wild ducks, geese, or other wild-fowl, while the same are sitting 
at night upon their resting-places. But this section shall not apply to waters 
of Long Esland Sound or the Atlantic Ocean. 
PENALTY FOR VIOLATION. 
See, 5, Any person violating the foregoing provisions of this act shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall likewise be liable to a penalty of 
fifty dollars for each offense. 
INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 
Sec. 6. No person shall at any time, within this state, kill, or trap, or ex- 
pose for sale, or have in his pos on after the same is killed, any eagle, fish- 
hawk, night - hawk, whippoorwill, finch, thrush, lark, sparrow, yellow-bird, 
brown thresher, wren, martin, swallow, tonager, oriole, woodpecker, bobolink, 
or any other harmless bird, or any song-bird; or kill, trap, or expose for sale 
any robin, blackbird, meadow-lark, or starling, save during the months of Au- 
gust, September, October, November, and December ; nor destroy or rob the 
nests of any wild birds whatever, under a penalty of five dollars for each bird 
so killed, trapped, or exposed for sale, and for each nest destroyed or robbed. 
