tiene de color de uña, y un poco encorvadas. Son anchuelas y agudas, y están sobre los cañones de las plumas largas del ala, que se llaman quetzalhuitztli. Son verdes, claras, largas y derechas y agudas de las puntas, y resplandece su verdura. Habitan estas aves en la provincia que se llama Tecolotlan, que es hacia Unduras, [sic] o cerca. Viven en las arboledas y hacen su nido en los árboles para criar sus hijos.
\nHay una ave en esta tierra que se llama tzinitzcan o teutzinitzcan. Esta ave tiene las plumas negras y vive en el agua. Las plumas preciosas que tiene críanlas en el pecho y en los sobacos debaxo de las alas, que tiene [la m]itad prietas y la mitad verdes resplandecientes.
\nHay otra ave que se llama tlauhquéchol o teuquéchol, y vive en el agua. Es como pato. Tiene los pies como pato, anchos, colorados. También el pico tiene colorado. Tiene el pico como paleta de bodicario, que ellos llaman espátula. Tiene un tocadillo
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"ce1c50e2-dc80-4751-84ad-775f673d03a2","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"have the color of fingernails[^13] and are somewhat curved. They are rather wide and pointy, and they are above the shafts of the wing’s long feathers, which are called _quetzalhuitztli_. These are green, clear, long and straight, and pointy at the tips, and have a shimmering greenness. These birds live in the province called Tecolotlan, which is toward Honduras, or nearby. They live in tree groves and make their nests in the trees in order to raise their chicks.\n\nIn this land, there is a bird called _tzinitzcan_ or _teotzinitzcan_. This bird has black feathers and lives in the water. The precious feathers that it has grow on its breast and in the armpits under the wings, which are half-dark and half–bright green.\n\nThere is another bird that is called _tlauhquechol_ or _teoquechol_, and it lives in the water. It is like a duck. It has feet like a duck’s, wide and red. Its bill is also red. Its bill is like a pharmacist’s blade, which they call “spatula.” It has a little red crest \n\n\n[^13]: “The color of fingernails”: _de color de uña_. The Nahuatl text reads _xoxovic_, which means “dark green.” Anderson and Dibble (A&D, bk. 11, 20) translate it as “flesh-colored.”","html":"have the color of fingernails1 and are somewhat curved. They are rather wide and pointy, and they are above the shafts of the wing’s long feathers, which are called quetzalhuitztli. These are green, clear, long and straight, and pointy at the tips, and have a shimmering greenness. These birds live in the province called Tecolotlan, which is toward Honduras, or nearby. They live in tree groves and make their nests in the trees in order to raise their chicks.
\nIn this land, there is a bird called tzinitzcan or teotzinitzcan. This bird has black feathers and lives in the water. The precious feathers that it has grow on its breast and in the armpits under the wings, which are half-dark and half–bright green.
\nThere is another bird that is called tlauhquechol or teoquechol, and it lives in the water. It is like a duck. It has feet like a duck’s, wide and red. Its bill is also red. Its bill is like a pharmacist’s blade, which they call “spatula.” It has a little red crest
\n“The color of fingernails”: de color de uña. The Nahuatl text reads xoxovic, which means “dark green.” Anderson and Dibble (A&D, bk. 11, 20) translate it as “flesh-colored.”↩
[centlamã]tli, in vel yiacol iacac ixoa: itoca tzicoliuhquj: çan qualton, tzintliltic, xoxovic, achi tzicoltic. Auh in qujoaltoqujlia in jiacolpan eoa, itoca: tecpatic, patlactontli, iacavitztic.
\nIn qujtzinpachoa yiahaz: itoca, quetzalhujtztli, yoan itoca chilchotic, piaztontli, iacavitztic, xoxoctic xoxocpatic: pepetzca, xoxotla, xoxoccaltia.
\nInin tototl vel itlacachan, in tecolotlan: auh quavitl yitic, in mochantia, yoã in mopilhoatia.
\natlan in nemj: tliltic, catzaoac in jviio. Auh injc mjtoa teutzinitzcan: hielpan, yoan iciiacac in manj chictlapanquj, centlacotl tliltic, centlacotl xoxoctic: xoxotla, pepepetzca.
\nyoan itoca teuquechol, atlan chane, iuhqujn canauhtli, xopapatlactic, xochichiltic, tempatlaoac, mactepoztic in jten: quachichiqujle. In jtzontecon; yoan in jelpan,
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"314d1313-662b-4688-80b9-c125137709dd","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"kind which grows at the very point of the wing-bend is called *tzicoliuhqui*. They are of average size, black at the base, flesh-colored,[^4] somewhat curved. And those which follow, which come forth at its wing-bend, are called *tecpatic*.[^5] They are a little wide, pointed at the end.\n\nThose which cover the bases of its flight feathers are called *quetzalhuitztli* and *chilchotic*, *piaztontli*, *yacauitztic*. They are green, very green, resplendent; they glisten, they become very green.\n\nThe breeding place of these birds is [the province of] Tecolotlan; and in the trees they make their homes and raise their young.\n\n##### Mexican trogon[^6]\n\nIt lives in the water. Its feathers are black, dark. And for this reason is it called *teotzinitzcan*:[^7] on its breast and its underwing it is varicolored, half black, half green. It is glistening green, resplendent.\n\n##### Roseate spoonbill[^8]\n\nAlso its name is *teoquechol*. It is a waterfowl, like the duck: wide-footed, chili-red footed. It is wide-billed; its bill is like a palette knife. It is crested. \n\n\n\n\n[^4]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”color de vña.”*\n\n\n[^5]: Lit. flint-knife-like.\n\n\n[^6]: *Tzinitzcan: Trogon mexicanus* Swainson (Friedmann *et al., op. cit*., p. 12). *Teutzinitzcan* is an alternative name.\n\n\n[^7]: Fig., really precious.\n\n\n[^8]: *Tlauhquechol: Ajaia ajaja* (Linnaeus) in *ibid*., Pt. I, p. 35. *Teoquechol* is an alternative name.","html":"kind which grows at the very point of the wing-bend is called tzicoliuhqui. They are of average size, black at the base, flesh-colored,1 somewhat curved. And those which follow, which come forth at its wing-bend, are called tecpatic.2 They are a little wide, pointed at the end.
\nThose which cover the bases of its flight feathers are called quetzalhuitztli and chilchotic, piaztontli, yacauitztic. They are green, very green, resplendent; they glisten, they become very green.
\nThe breeding place of these birds is [the province of] Tecolotlan; and in the trees they make their homes and raise their young.
\nIt lives in the water. Its feathers are black, dark. And for this reason is it called teotzinitzcan:4 on its breast and its underwing it is varicolored, half black, half green. It is glistening green, resplendent.
\nAlso its name is teoquechol. It is a waterfowl, like the duck: wide-footed, chili-red footed. It is wide-billed; its bill is like a palette knife. It is crested.
\nCorresponding Spanish text: ”color de vña.”↩
Lit. flint-knife-like.↩
Tzinitzcan: Trogon mexicanus Swainson (Friedmann et al., op. cit., p. 12). Teutzinitzcan is an alternative name.↩
Fig., really precious.↩
Tlauhquechol: Ajaia ajaja (Linnaeus) in ibid., Pt. I, p. 35. Teoquechol is an alternative name.↩