Curve-billed Thrasher
- 24 Apr, 2023
- Audio
Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre), CUĪTLACOCH-IN/CUĪTLACOCH-TŌTŌ-TL
“It has a song, a varied song …. It is named cuitlacochtototl, which is taken from its song, because it says cuitlacoch, cuitlacoch, tarata, tarat, tatatati, tatatari, titiriti, tiriti…. It is capable of domestication; it is teachable….” (FC, p. 51).
Audio recording by Andrew Theus. From the Macauley Library ML436112051.
Cf. pages 79–80 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.