Canyon Wren

Canyon Wren (Catherpes mexicanus), TLATHUICICI-TLI

“It is named tlatuicicitli because of its song. When it is still dark, long before dawn, it begins to sing. As it sounds its song, it is as if it says tlatuicicitli. It lives in one’s roof, in one’s wall. It awakens one” (FC, p. 47).

Audio recording by Brayden Luikart. From the Macauley Library ML436865601.

Cf. page 75 in The Aztec Fascination with Birds monograph.

References Cited
Quoted material from the Florentine Codex (FC): Reprinted from Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain, Book 11, Earthly Things¸ by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, translated by Arthur J.O. Anderson, and Charles E. Dibble with permission from School for American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Copyright 1981.