Thicket Tinamou

Thicket Tinamou (Crypturellus cinnamomeus), TECUZIL-TŌTŌ-TL

“… it is so named [because] it always so speaks; it indeed pronounces [the sound] tecucilton, tecucilton. Its voice is thin. It is the same [size] as a quail, and its feathers are the same …. It lives in…[the provinces of] Teutlixco [and] Toztlan" (FC, p. 26).

Audio recording by Vicente Desjardins. From the Macauley Library ML435021671.

Cf. page 42 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.