Tienen la pluma muy blanda. Hácese della mantas. Éstos comen peces, y también maíz.
\nHay unos patillos como cercetas que se llaman tezoloctli. Hacen ruido cuando voelan.
\nHay unas aves en el agua que se llaman atotoli, que quiere decir "gallina de agua". Tienen boca ancha y muy hendida, hasta el cuello. Pescan abierta la boca o abre la boca como red para pescar. Es tamaña como un gallo de papada. Hay unas destas aves blancas; otras ametaladas.
\nEstas aves dichas van a criar a diversas partes, y vienen al invierno por estas partes, al tiempo de los maizales.
\nOtra ave hay en el agua que se llama cuachilton. Tiene la cabeza colorada, el pico agudo, los pies negros. Es de color ceniciento. Críase entre las espadañas en el agua. Hay otra ave semejante a éstas, que se llama yacacintli. Tiene los pies largos y el pico largo. Son buenas de comer. Comen peces. Críanse en el agua.
\nHay otras aves en el agua que se llaman huexocanauhtli. Tienen las piernas largas y verdes escuras, el pico agudo y largo y verde. Tiene la pluma parda escura.
\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":"234c1e0f-c041-4fb0-8dd4-adae3c226868","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":"They have very soft feathers. They make blankets out of them. These [ducks] eat fish and also maize.\n\nThere are some little ducks like teals that are called _tezoloctli_. They make a noise when they fly.\n\nThere are some waterfowl that are called _atotolin_,[^18] which means “water chicken.” They have a broad mouth that is quite cleft, all the way to their throat. They fish by opening their mouths, or it opens its mouth like a fishing net. It is the size of a dewlap rooster. Some of these birds are white; others have a metallic sheen.\n\nThese birds go to breed in different places, and they come to these regions in the winter, during the season of the maize fields.\n\nThere is another waterfowl that is called _cuachilton_. It has a red head, a sharp beak, [and] black feet. It is ashen colored. It lives among the reeds in the water. There is another bird, similar to these ones, that is called _yacacintli_. It has long feet and a long bill. They are good to eat. They eat fish. They live in the water.\n\nThere are other waterfowl that are called _huexocanauhtli_. Their legs are long and dark green; their beaks are sharp, long, and green. Their feathers are dark brown. \n\n\n[^18]: _atotolin_: _atotoli_ in LAGQ.","html":"They have very soft feathers. They make blankets out of them. These [ducks] eat fish and also maize.
\nThere are some little ducks like teals that are called tezoloctli. They make a noise when they fly.
\nThere are some waterfowl that are called atotolin,1 which means “water chicken.” They have a broad mouth that is quite cleft, all the way to their throat. They fish by opening their mouths, or it opens its mouth like a fishing net. It is the size of a dewlap rooster. Some of these birds are white; others have a metallic sheen.
\nThese birds go to breed in different places, and they come to these regions in the winter, during the season of the maize fields.
\nThere is another waterfowl that is called cuachilton. It has a red head, a sharp beak, [and] black feet. It is ashen colored. It lives among the reeds in the water. There is another bird, similar to these ones, that is called yacacintli. It has long feet and a long bill. They are good to eat. They eat fish. They live in the water.
\nThere are other waterfowl that are called huexocanauhtli. Their legs are long and dark green; their beaks are sharp, long, and green. Their feathers are dark brown.
\natotolin: atotoli in LAGQ.↩
tlilectic. Atlan chane. mjchquanj.
\nTeçoloctli: tepiton, çolonjnj.
\nvei, tempatlaoac: quechmatle. Iztac: iuhqujn vexolotl.
\nIn tlalalacatl: in tocujlcoiotl, in atotolin, in canauhtli eliztac. In tzoniaiauhquj: in xomutl, in teçoloctli: vei, atlan chaneque; vei atenco, xaltitlan in tlapanj: tlaquauh vmpa in tonatiuh icalaqujan. Auh çan iquac in oalhuj çevetzi, oallaquaqua.
\natlan nemj, cempouj in canauhtli, quachichiltic, tenvitztic, çan njcan novian tulla in nemj in tlacati.
\nIacacintli: çã no iehoatl in quachil.
\nxoviviac, xoiaiauhquj, tenvitztic, tenvitzaponatic, tenxoxouhquj, tenvitzavi, tenvitzti: quachichilivi, xoveveiaquja, xomemecatia, xomemecati.
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"34c49c91-2867-4b81-ad99-25e7a5bd3062","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":"blackish. It is a water-dweller, a fish-eater.\n\nThe teçoloctli is small, one which whirs [as it flies].\n\n##### American white pelican[^8]\n\nIt is large, broad-billed. It has a net-like throat. It is white like the turkey-cock.\n\nThe goose, the brown crane, the American white pelican, the Mexican duck are white-breasted. The mallard, the *xomotl*, the *teçoloctli* are sea-dwellers. They hatch on the seashore, on the sand, especially there to the west. And when frost comes, they come here to feed.\n\n##### American coot[^9]\n\nIt lives on the water; it belongs with the ducks. Its head is chili-red, its bill pointed. It lives, it is hatched only here, among the reeds.\n\nThe yacacintli is the same as the American coot.\n\n##### Black-crowned night heron[^10]\n\nIts legs are long, dark green. Its bill is pointed, long and pointed, green. It forms a point; it is pointed. The head becomes chili-red; its legs become long, rope-like. Its legs are stringy.\n\n\n\n\n[^8]: *Atotolin: Pelecanus erythrorhynchus* Gmelin (Friedmann *et al., op. cit.,* p. 20).\n\n\n[^9]: *Quachilton: Fulica americana* Gmelin (*ibid.,* p. 87).\n\n\n[^10]: *Vexocanauhtli: Nycticorax nycticorax* (Linnaeus). See Martín del Campo, *op. cit.,* p. 394, and Friedmann *et al., op. cit.,* p. 31.","html":"blackish. It is a water-dweller, a fish-eater.
\nThe teçoloctli is small, one which whirs [as it flies].
\nIt is large, broad-billed. It has a net-like throat. It is white like the turkey-cock.
\nThe goose, the brown crane, the American white pelican, the Mexican duck are white-breasted. The mallard, the xomotl, the teçoloctli are sea-dwellers. They hatch on the seashore, on the sand, especially there to the west. And when frost comes, they come here to feed.
\nIt lives on the water; it belongs with the ducks. Its head is chili-red, its bill pointed. It lives, it is hatched only here, among the reeds.
\nThe yacacintli is the same as the American coot.
\nIts legs are long, dark green. Its bill is pointed, long and pointed, green. It forms a point; it is pointed. The head becomes chili-red; its legs become long, rope-like. Its legs are stringy.
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