302 STATE OF NEW YORK. 



Exceptions as to Wild Fowl. 



§ 162. Floating devices may be used for the purpose of shooting web-footed wild fowl 

 therefrom in Long Island sound, Great South Bay, west of Smith's Point, Shinnecock and 

 Peconic bays, and in any part of said counties said birds may be pursued and killed from boats 

 propelled by hand, and from any sail boats in Long Island sound, Gardiner and Peconic bays. 

 Whoever shall violate or attempt to violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty 

 of misdemeanor, and in addition thereto shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for 

 each bird killed or possessed contrary to the provisions of this section. 



Plover and Other Birds ; Close Season. 



§ 163. Plover, curlew, jack snipe, bittern, Wilsons, commonly known as English snipe, yellow 

 legs, Killdeer, Willet snipe, dowitcher, short-necks, rail, sandpiper, baysnipe, surf snipe, winter 

 snipe, ring-necks, and oxeyes shall not be shot at, hunted, killed or possessed, except from the 

 first day of July to the thirty-first day of December, both inclusive. Whoever shall violate or 

 attempt to violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and in 

 addition thereto shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each bird killed, trapped or 

 possessed contrary to the provisions of this section. 



Woodcock and Grouse; Close Season. 



§ 164. Ruffed grouse, commonly known as partridge, or any member of the grouse family or 

 meadow larks shall not be hunted, shot at or killed from the first day of January to the thirty- 

 first day of October, both inclusive. Woodcock shall not be hunted, shot at or killed from the 

 first day of January to the thirty-first day of July, inclusive. Nor shall either of such birds be 

 possessed, dead or alive, or sold after the thirty-first day of January until the end of the close 

 season for such birds respectively. Possession thereof during the month of January is forbidden 

 and shall be deemed a violation of this section, unless it be proved by the possessor or seller that 

 said birds were killed within the lawful period for killing the same or out of this state. Whoever 

 shall violate or attempt to violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of misde- 

 meanor and in addition thereto shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each bird 

 killed, trapped or possessed contrary to the provisions of this section. 



Robbins and Gardiners Island. 



§ 165. Quail may be shot on Robbins island so long as it remains the property of the 

 Robbins Island club, and on Gardiners island, from the fifteenth day of October to the thirty-first 

 day of January following, both inclusive, and woodcock may be shot on such islands from the 

 first day of August to the thirty-first day of December, both inclusive. Whoever shall violate or 

 attempt to violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor. 



