Posts tagged with "Photo"
- 03 May, 2023
- Photo
XIUH-TŌTŌ-TL, Lovely Cotinga (ML435428891, photo by Guillermo Saborío Vega from Macaulay Library).
- 03 May, 2023
- Photo
AYO-CUAN2, Northern Jacana (ML435268441, photo by Michael Carmody from Macaulay Library).
- 03 May, 2023
- Photo
AYO-CUAN1, Yellow-winged Cacique (ML432006541, photo by Suzanne Roberts from Macaulay Library).
- 03 May, 2023
- Photo
TLĀUH-QUECHŌL, the Roseate Spoonbill (Dibble & Anderson, 1963, Figure 44, after Paso y Troncoso).
- 03 May, 2023
- Photo
ZACUAN, Montezuma Oropendola (ML435008871, photo by Carolien Hoek from Macaulay Library).
- 03 May, 2023
- Photo
XIHUA-PAL-QUECHŌL, Turquoise-browed Motmot (ML434528501, photo by Guillermo Saborío Vega from Macaulay Library).
- 03 May, 2023
- Audio, Photo
Great Tinamou (Tinamus major), IXMATLA-TŌTŌ-TL
“Its home is in the forest. It lives there in Anahuac . It is called ixmatlatototl because [its song] is almost like our own speech. When it sings, it says campa uee, as if it imitated those who live there …. Its bill is silvery. Its head, its breast, its back, its tail are completely ashen; its feet are ashen" (FC, p. 26).
Audio recording by Adam Dudley. From the Macauley Library ML432084251. Photo by Lukas Sekelsky.
Cf. pages 42–43 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.
- 03 May, 2023
- Audio, Photo
Russet-naped Wood-Rail (Aramides castaneiventris), PŌPOCALES
“As for its being called popocales¸ it speaks so. Always in the twilight and at dawn, it says popocales…. it lives there in [the provinces of] Toztlan [and] Catemahco …. It is the size of a duck, only a little taller …. Its bill is pointed,…chili-red. Its eyes are chili-red. Its head is dark yellow. Its neck, its back, its breast, its tail are ashen….The legs are chili-red" (FC, p. 25–26).
Audio recording by Jessy Lopez Herra. From the Macaulay Library ML435824171. Photo by Alex Lamoreaux.
Cf. Figure 26 and pages 41–42 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.
- 24 Apr, 2023
- Audio, Photo
Green Shrike-Vireo (Vireolanius pulchellus), TACHITOHUIYA
“It is small and green, small and round; a companion of the woodsman. It is named tachitouya because of its song, because its song says tachitouya. Whomever it sees, it comes along with him, singing as it goes; it goes along making [the sound] tachitouya” (FC, p. 46).
Audio recording by Daniel Garrigues. From the Macauley Library ML437064121. Photo by William Hemstrom.
Cf. page 73 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.
- 21 Apr, 2023
- Photo
TZINITZCAN-TŌTŌ-TL, Mountain Trogon (ML461204061, photo by Gabriel Cordón, from Macauley Library).