Pitka 1948 Sept. 5 Prisoner's Harbor, 10 ft. Santa Cruz 1. 14th. He also took our postal cards to mail in SB. Morning around camp quiet. No arri[illegible]ante except group of six Passerculus sandwichensis s[illegible] on beach. Young House Finch following adult mals seen again today: Waxwings, Barn Swallows and Paleolated Warbler seen again today. Sept 6 Hunted along bluff NW of Prisoner's Harbor in the direction of Pelican Inlet, about a mile, from which point I was in sight of the mouth of the inlet. In this area the vegetation was perhaps as mixed and varied as in any we have visited. Quercus agrifolia, with occasional understory individuals of Photinia and Comarostaphylos, filled the canyons. In the canyon (farthest), there was a good ground cover of bracken fern occurring in patches under the oaks wherever the surface was not eroding away actively. On the exposed, sites were grass-cactus and scattered low scrub, and on the, more gentle, north-facing slopes was the usual sand-woodland of oak, Arctostaphylos, Cercocarpus, Photinia, and Comarostaphylo[illegible]. Along some of the ridges running toward the sea, and on the moister sites along those ridges (usually facing NW) there were scattered pines, almost all of them large. This fact together with the presence of many dead pines and their distribution around a large turn area suggested that there was perhaps once an extensive pine forest there. What pines remain do not appear to be reproducing, and it would appear that in the vicinity of Prisoner's Harbor,