10 BIRDS OF THE WEST 



ROLL OF HONOR. 



THE BIRDS. 

 For service in the cause of humanity ; for making the fields to 

 flash with color, the lakes to laugh with music and for making the 

 trees the very "peaks of song", for teaching the courage for pio- 

 neering, the joy of honest toil, the virtue of happy mating, the 

 spirit of devoted parentage and the satisfaction in an "ever so 

 humble" home; for singing with their work and revealing to us 

 the life in nature that ' ' lifts us to the skies ' '. 



THE ROBINS. 



For labor upon our lawns; for stirring childliood's fancies 

 and awakening in old hearts the illusions of their childhood. 



THE LARKS. 

 For tireless hours of toil upon our farms, clearing them of in- 

 sects and the seeds of noxious weeds; for singing in every field 

 and from every fence-post ; for making morning the beginning of a 

 day and evening the promise of another. 



THE BLUEBIRDS. 



For picking up the berries of the ivy and the brier ; for clear- 

 ing our gardens of grubs, our waysides of pests upon the wing 

 and for giving a song to the early winds to tell us that we may re- 

 joice at the bursting of the buds. 



THE CUCKOOS. 

 For stripping our trees of caterpillars, our gardens of spiders, 

 our fields of beetles and for minding their own business. 



THE HAWKS. 

 For their restless hunting of rodents and reptiles and for hav- 

 ing eyes that see in a half -blind world. 



THE KILLDEERS. 



For their fight against the boll- weevil and the Rocky Mountain 

 locust and for the love of their little fuzzy babies. 



