s.

4. Attendance. (Annual.) (Badge, Silver Star.)

Must complete one year of regular attendance.

5. Automobiling. (A Wheel.)

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1. Must pass an examination equal to that required to obtain a permit or
license to operate an automobile in her community.

2. Know how to start a motor and be able to do it and be able to explain
necessary precautions.

3. Know how to extinguish burning oil or gasoline.

4. Comply with such requirements as are imposed by body conducting the
test for licensing drivers.

6. Aviation. (Monoplane.)

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To obtain a merit badge for aviation, a Scout must:

1. Have a knowledge of the theory of the aeroplane, helicopter, and
ornithopter, and of the spherical and dirigible balloon.

2. Have made a working model of any type of heavier than air machine,
that will fly at least twenty-five yards; and have built a box kite that
will fly.

3. Have a knowledge of the types and makes of engines used for
aeroplanes, of the best known makes of aeroplanes, and of feats
performed or of records made by famous aviators.

4. Have a knowledge of names of famous airships (dirigibles) and some of
their records.

5. Understand the difference between aviation and aerostation, and know
the types of apparatus which come under these two heads.

7. Bird Study. (Bird.)

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To secure this badge a Scout must:

1. Give list of 30 well known wild birds of United States.

2. State game bird laws of her State.

3. Give list of 30 wild birds personally observed and identified in the
open.

4. Give list of 10 wild birds sold as cage birds.

5. Name 10 birds that destroy rats and mice.

6. Give list of 25 birds of value to farmers and fruit growers in the
destruction of insect pests on crops and trees.

7. Give name and location of 2 large bird refuges, explain the reason
for their establishment and the birds they protect.

8. Tell what the Audubon Society is and how it endeavors to conserve the
birds of beautiful plumage.

9. What an aigret is, how obtained, and from what bird. (_Land Birds and
Water Birds_, C. A. Reed.) (The Department of Agriculture has a number
of bulletins on birds. See list.)

10. What methods to attract birds winter and summer.

8. Boatswain. (Anchor.)

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To obtain a badge for seamanship a Girl Scout must:

1. Be able to tie six knots.

2. Be able to row, pole, scull, or steer a boat.

3. Land a bo