Palmer 1936 Itinerary Butts Ranch, 3000 ft., 5 mi. NNW San Benito, San Benito C. Calif. May 25 Left Berkeley 2 P.M. yesterday May 24 in Dodge truck with D.H. Johnson. Driven via Oakland, San Jose, Gilroy, Hollister, Tres Pinos to Paicines where we turned off up Tres Pinos Creek. Camped last night beside the road about 2 miles below Emmet. This morning drove on up the road to Emmet which is about 2 mi. farther up the canon than is shown on the U.S.G.S San Benito Quad. Then turned off on side road up Salt Creek past Croxon Ranch to Butts Ranch [= Buffs Ranch] on U.S.G.S topog-map [?]. Went out about 8 A.M. with Johnson and hunted. Hunted over rolling hillside grass covered with scattered Blue Oak Valley Oak and Live Oak with a few Digger Pine intermixed. Now I shot 1 Titmouse, 1 Slender Billed Nuthatch and 1 California Woodpecker and Johnson shot a Slender Billed Nuthatch and an Ash Throated Flycatcher. Then hunted along edge of Brushland with very thick cover 5-8 ft. high of Adenostoma, Ceanothus cuneatus, Acrostaphylos, and Quercus dumosa. Now Johnson shot a California Jay and in the edge,