Hay unas aves blancas que se llaman áztatl o teuáztatl. En algunas partes, en España, se llaman dorales, y acá las llaman garzotas blancas los españoles. Son muy blancas, como la nieve. Tienen poca carne. Tienen el cuello muy largo y doblado. Tienen el pico largo y agudo y negro; las piernas altas o largas y negras; la cola tienen corta. Ninguna otra color tienen. Crían penachos en los muslos y en los sobacos. Comen peces. Su carne no es comestible.
\nHay un ave en esta tierra que se llama axoquen. Es de color de las grullas; pero mucho menor. Tiene las piernas largas y el pico largo. Anda en el agua y come pescado, y tiene olor de pescado.
\nHay gallinas monteses y gallos. Son como las gallinas y gallos domésticas desta tierra, ansí
\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":"1e052506-5975-463f-96a8-3906b1b31101","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":"There are some white birds that are called _aztatl_ or _teoaztatl_. In some places in Spain, they are called “egrets,”[^19] but here the Spaniards call them “big white herons.” They are very white, like snow. They have little flesh. Their necks are very long and curved. They have long, sharp, black beaks; their legs are tall or long and black; they have short tails. They do not have any other color. They grow tufts of feathers on their thighs and in their armpits. They eat fish. Their meat is not edible.\n\nThere is a bird in this land that is called _axoquen_. It is the color of herons, but it is much smaller. It has long legs and a long bill. It wanders in the water, eats fish, and smells like fish.\n\nThere are wild chickens and roosters. They are like domestic chickens and roosters from this land, both \n\n\n[^19]: “Egrets”: _dorales_.","html":"There are some white birds that are called aztatl or teoaztatl. In some places in Spain, they are called “egrets,”1 but here the Spaniards call them “big white herons.” They are very white, like snow. They have little flesh. Their necks are very long and curved. They have long, sharp, black beaks; their legs are tall or long and black; they have short tails. They do not have any other color. They grow tufts of feathers on their thighs and in their armpits. They eat fish. Their meat is not edible.
\nThere is a bird in this land that is called axoquen. It is the color of herons, but it is much smaller. It has long legs and a long bill. It wanders in the water, eats fish, and smells like fish.
\nThere are wild chickens and roosters. They are like domestic chickens and roosters from this land, both
\n“Egrets”: dorales.↩
[coch]hiçanj: tecalquac, calixquac moçoquicaltianj: ianj polivinj: q͗n hiquac oallauh, in atemuztli cochhiça: tehixitia, tlatlatoa, tzatzatzi, papatlaca, moiectia, moiêiectia, mapantlaça, maltia.
\nmjtoa teuaztatl. iztac, iztacpatic, aztapiltic, cehpaiauhtic, cujtlaololtic, oacçoltic, quechveiac, quechmecatic, quechcocoltic; tenvitztic, tenvitzaponatic, tentliltic: xovivitlatztic, xomemecatic, xotlâtlacotic, xotliltic: cujtlapiltetepontic.
\nmotocujlcoionenequj, nextic, nexeoac: xoqujhiac, xoqujpototl, xoqujhialtic, xoqujhiaia; xoqujpotoivi.
\nçan vel iuhqujn totolin, tel achi poctic, hacolihiztac. qualonj; velic, aviiac, chiaoac: tlacocoloanj. In vexolotl: in cioatotolin, tlatotocujcuj
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"2a2eb898-6d71-4eea-91c9-217b91e200dd","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":"an awakener of the sleeping. It is a builder of mud nests in house roofs, in house fronts. It is a traveler, a disappearer; later it comes, in [the month of] Atemoztli. It awakens sleepers, it brings them from their sleep; it warbles, it cries out; it flutters; it cleans itself, beautifies itself; it hurls itself into the water, it bathes itself.\n\n##### Snowy egret[^15]\n\nIt is [also] called *teoaztatl*. It is white, very white, intensely white, snow-white. The back is rounded; dry, old looking. It is long-necked, stringy, curved. The bill is pointed, long and pointed, black. The legs are very long, stringy, stilt-like, black. The tail is stubby.\n\n##### Little blue heron[^16]\n\nIt resembles the brown crane [in color]: it is ashen, grey. It smells like fish, rotten fish, stinking fish. It smells of fish, rotten fish.\n\n##### Wild turkey\n\nIt is like the domesticated turkey, though a little smoke-colored. The wing-bend is white. It is edible—savory, good-tasting, fat. It is a gobbler. The turkey cock [and] the turkey hen… . They gobble, \n\n\n\n\n[^15]: *Aztatl: Leucophoyx thula* (Molina); *ibid.,* Pt. I, p. 30.\n\n\n[^16]: *Axoquen: Florida caerulea* (Linnaeus); *ibid.,* p. 29.","html":"an awakener of the sleeping. It is a builder of mud nests in house roofs, in house fronts. It is a traveler, a disappearer; later it comes, in [the month of] Atemoztli. It awakens sleepers, it brings them from their sleep; it warbles, it cries out; it flutters; it cleans itself, beautifies itself; it hurls itself into the water, it bathes itself.
\nIt is [also] called teoaztatl. It is white, very white, intensely white, snow-white. The back is rounded; dry, old looking. It is long-necked, stringy, curved. The bill is pointed, long and pointed, black. The legs are very long, stringy, stilt-like, black. The tail is stubby.
\nIt resembles the brown crane [in color]: it is ashen, grey. It smells like fish, rotten fish, stinking fish. It smells of fish, rotten fish.
\nIt is like the domesticated turkey, though a little smoke-colored. The wing-bend is white. It is edible—savory, good-tasting, fat. It is a gobbler. The turkey cock [and] the turkey hen… . They gobble,
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