letters per minute using a sounder and
American Morse Code.

2. Receive 25 letters per minute and write out the
message in long hand or on a typewriter directly
from sound.

No mistakes allowed. OR

b. Wireless. Pass examination for lowest grade wireless operator
according to U. S. N. regulations.

REFERENCE:

"Harper's Beginning Electricity," D. C. Shafer, Harper.

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I. To pass this test a Scout must be able to tell in a general way the
differences between plants and animals, the different kinds of animals,
Invertebrates and Vertebrates, and among the Vertebrates to distinguish
between Fishes, Amphibia, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals.

II. She must also pass the test on Mammals and the test on at least one
other group: either Invertebrates, Fishes, Amphibia, Reptiles or Birds,
(For this see special test under Bird Hunter).

A. MAMMALS

1. Describe and give life history of ten wild
mammals personally observed and identified.

2. Name two mammals that kill fruit trees by
girdling them.

3. Mention three mammals that destroy the farmer's
grain.

4. State game laws of your State which apply to
mammals.

5. Name and locate one great game preserve in the
United States and mention five game mammals
protected there.

B. REPTILES

1. Give the life history of one reptile.

2. Give names of three Turtles that you have
identified in the open.

3. What is the only poisonous Lizard in the United
States?

4. Name and describe the poisonous Snakes of your
State.

C. AMPHIBIANS

1. Describe the life history of the frog or the
toad.

2. Describe the wonderful power of changing color
shown by the common Tree-frog.

3. What is the difference in the external
appearance of a salamander and a lizard?

4. Give a list of five Amphibians that you have
identified in the open.

D. FISHES

1. Describe the habits of feeding and egg-laying
in one of our native fishes.

2. Mention a common fish that has no scales, one
that has very small scales, and one that has
comparatively large scales.

3. Name f