May 5 at Mitla - so we continued on to Oaxaca and stayed at the Oaxaca Courts , skimming 4 levels which we collected this morning. May 6 Drove north along Pan-American highway, climbing up thru an extensive region of pine-oak forest northwest of Oaxaca City where road reaches 7000 or so. At a point 46 mi. by road we were still in pine-oak forest - We then drove on to Nochistlan, which is located in a valley with extremely poor soils scanty vegetation - waste land - and inquired about location of "Rancho de las Palmas" without luck. This locality probably is near Nochistlan but the vegetation adjacent to the road is very scanty - it may be rancho in the hills. The soil between Nochistlan and several miles beyond Huajupan de Leon must be very poor as it supports only scanty shrubs in some areas - and a fan-palm, often scrubby is very common. At Huajupan de Leon we turned onto a dirt road & drove along a river thru Huajolotitlan to Comostlan where I hunted on a slope of cactus (tuna type) and palo-blanco-type trees similar to situation where we have found brunneicapillus in northern Mexico but a bit drier & shorter vegetation. Hunted also along the river bed (all but dry) in riparian hollows, Taxodium trees (huge size). Pipilo-mutalis was common in both types - additionally along the river I saw