Palmer 1936 Itinerary Butte Ranch, Saw Benito Co., (cont'd) May 29 (cont'd) 2 grasshoppers and 1 bug of the squash-bug type in its bill. May 30 Weather poor. Heavy thunder showers in afternoon. Finished skinning birds collected yesterday. Did no hunting. Johnson looked mole trap & found 1 had caught 1 mole. May 31 Warm & clear after the rains. Hunted from the canyon where the mole trap is south. Reset the mole trap in a fresh runway a little farther up the creek bed. Hunted along the edges of the chaparral (Scrub Oak, Ceanothus, Adenostoma, manzanita) Shot 2 Fagotoma redivivum from the lower branches of an oak at the edge of the chaparral. Saw several Calif. Jays and a Brown Jay here. Great-catchus and Plain Jitmouses are common in the Blue Oaks. Saw a flock of Bushtits as I hunted south to the next canyon. This canyon is not visited by Johnson + me on the first day. The north side is grassy with Blue Oak & Diggin Pine for a short distance up which gives way to heavy chaparral. The south side is cool & shaded with 2 large Live Oaks, Diggin Pine and underbrush of Wild Cherry and Poison Oak. On the south side of