Hay otra manera de ardillas que llaman tlaltechálutl. Llámase así porque crían en los maizales y moran en cuevas y entre las piedras, y allí crían sus hijos, como topos. Son muy dañinas para los maizales.
\nHay otro animalejo que se llama mototli. Es pequeñuelo y de color buró. Tiene la cola larga y blanquecina. Tiene el pelo muy blando. Come todas las cosas que comen las ardillas.
\nHay otro animalejo que se llama motoyáhuitl. Es semejante al de arriba dicho, de la misma especie. Es pardo escuro, de color de los ratones, y habita debaxo de la tierra, como ellos.
\nThere is another type of squirrel that they call tlaltechalotl. It is called this because they breed in maize fields and dwell in burrows and among the rocks; and they raise their offspring there, like gophers. They are very harmful to the maize fields.
\nThere is another small animal that is called motohtli. It is rather small, with a dark color. Its tail is long and whitish. It has very soft fur. It eats everything that squirrels eat.
\nThere is another small animal that is called motoyahuitl. It is similar to the one mentioned above, of the same species. It is dark and grayish brown, the same color as mice, and it lives underground, just like they do.
\nin quavitl, vncan qujmana in quauhocujltin: mapipitzoa.
\nçan ie no iehoatl in techalutl, iehoatl in cacalla, in mjlla nemj: injc mjtoa tlaltechalutl, tlallan in jchan, tecamac, tlacoiocco. Auh iuhqujn toça: tlallã in mopilhoatia, vel qujxpoloa in tonacaiutl.
\nçan qualton, çan tepiton, iaiactontli, popoiacpil: cujtlapilpoiactontli, cujtlapilveiacatontli: iuhqujn achi ticeoacatontli. In jxqujch itlaqual techalutl: no ixqujch in jtlaqual, in Mothotli.
\nça ie ieh in mothotli, iece vel poiactic: vel tlilpoiaoac, vel camjltic, in juhquj toçan, in juhquj qujmjchin, tlallan ichã: çan vel no iuhquj.
\ntlaquaton, anoço
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\nIt is the same as the squirrel. This one lives in house settlements, in maize fields. As for its being called ground squirrel, its burrow is underground, in an opening in the rocks, in holes. And like the gopher, it bears its young underground. It completely destroys maize [fields].
\nIt is small, little, blackish, dark. The tail is somewhat dark, somewhat long; a little whitish. All food for the chipmunk is the same as the food for the squirrel.
\nIt is the same chipmunk, though very dark, very blackish, very brown. Like the gopher, like the mouse, its burrow is underground, just the same [as theirs].
\nThe tlaquaton or
\nTlaltechalotl: Martín del Campo (loc. cit.) gives Citellus mexicanus mexicanus and Otospermophilus variegatus variegatus. Durrant identifies these as Citellus mexicanus mexicanus (Erxleben) or rock squirrel.↩
Mothotli: Villa R., op. cit., pp. 372–73, gives Citellus mexicanus mexicanus (Erxleben). Martín del Campo, loc. cit., suggests a species of the Eutamias genus—chipmunk.↩
Tlaquatl: Didelphis mesamericana mesamericana (ibid., p. 498); Didelphis marsupialis californica (Bennett) according to Villa R., op. cit., p. 308.↩