Hay también alcotanes y esmerejones, grandes cazadores. Llámanlos itztlohtli o tletleuhtzin. Unos destos hay que de noche ven y cazan, y llámanlos yohualtlohtli; quiere decir "ave de rapine que caza de noche".
\nHay en esta tierra ave de repina que me parece es esmerejón de España. Llámanle necuilictli, y por otro nombre le llama ecachichinqui, que quiere decir "el que chupa viento"; y por otro nombre le llama cenotzqui, que quiere decir "el que llama la helada"; y también le llama tletleton, que quiere decir "fuego". Es pequeño. Tiene el pico agudo y corvo. Come ratones y lagartijas. También come avecillas que se llaman zacacilin. Es manchado de bermejo y negro, como cernícalo. Dicen que no bebe esta ave; después de comido abre la boca al aire, y el aire le es en lugar de bebida. También en el aire siente cuando viene la helada, y entonces da gritos. Viene por estas partes al invierno. No es de comer.
\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":"fb1ef729-9c98-49d9-a119-f3962d94211e","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 also hobby hawks and merlin hawks, [both] great hunters. They call them _itztlohtli_ or _tletleuhtzin_. There are some of these that can see and hunt at night, and they call them _yohualtlohtli_, which means “bird of prey that hunts at night.”\n\nIn this land, there is a bird of prey that seems to me to be the merlin hawk from Spain. They call it _necuilictli_, and by other name they call it _ehecachichinqui_,[^23] which means “one who sucks wind.” And they call it by another name, _cenotzqui_, which means “one who summons the frost”; and they also call it _tletleton_, which means “fire.” It is small. It has a short curved beak. It eats mice and lizards. It also eats little birds that are called _zacatzilin_. It is spotted red and black, like a kestrel. They say that this bird does not drink; once it has eaten, it opens its mouth to the air and takes the air instead of drinking [liquid]. It also feels in the air when the frost is coming, and then it cries out. It comes to these regions in the winter. It is not edible. \n\n\n[^23]: _ehecachichinqui_: _ecachichinqui_ in LAGQ.","html":"There are also hobby hawks and merlin hawks, [both] great hunters. They call them itztlohtli or tletleuhtzin. There are some of these that can see and hunt at night, and they call them yohualtlohtli, which means “bird of prey that hunts at night.”
\nIn this land, there is a bird of prey that seems to me to be the merlin hawk from Spain. They call it necuilictli, and by other name they call it ehecachichinqui,1 which means “one who sucks wind.” And they call it by another name, cenotzqui, which means “one who summons the frost”; and they also call it tletleton, which means “fire.” It is small. It has a short curved beak. It eats mice and lizards. It also eats little birds that are called zacatzilin. It is spotted red and black, like a kestrel. They say that this bird does not drink; once it has eaten, it opens its mouth to the air and takes the air instead of drinking [liquid]. It also feels in the air when the frost is coming, and then it cries out. It comes to these regions in the winter. It is not edible.
\nehecachichinqui: ecachichinqui in LAGQ.↩
[cacana]uhti: yoan çan ic nemj in tlaqua, in campa qujmjtta totome, vel ompa qujmonaci:\nçã no icxicoztic.
\nItztlhotli: yoan itoca tlehtleuhtzin, tepiton, âtlamati, tlatlatzcanj: tlavitequjnj,
\nçan ie no ieh in tlhotli. Injc mjtoa: iooaltlhotli, tlachia in iooaltica: vel tlama vellavitequj.
\nanoço necujloctli, anoço hecachichinquj: yoan qujtocaiotia, cenotzquj, yoan tlehtleuhton: çan qualton, tēvitzton, tenvitzpil: qujmjchquanj, cuetzpalquanj, çacatzilquanj: hecachichinanj, coziaiactõtli: In otlaqua: njmã hecachichina, qujl ic tlaapachoa. Auh in quenjn qujmati ehecatl: in ie vitz çetl, njman peoa in tzatzi.
\namatlapalhujviltecquj, iz[tacatica:]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"a3a91ed8-d28d-40bc-aae7-07c2b70584f4","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":"ducks, and only for the purpose of eating them. Wherever they find the birds, there they hunt them.\n\nAlso their legs are yellow.\n\nThe Obsidian Falcon: its name is also *tletleuhtzin*. It is small, bold; a whirrer; a bird of prey.\n\n##### Youaltlotli[^27]\n\nIt is the same as a falcon. It is named *youaltlotli* because it sees in the dark: it can hunt, it can strike its prey.\n\n##### Necuilictli\n\n—or *necuiloctli*, or *ecachichinqui*; and they name it *cenotzqui* and *tletleuhton*.[^28] It is of average size. The bill is pointed, small and pointed. It is an eater of mice, of lizards, of *çacacilin* [birds]. It is an airsucker. It is [spotted] yellow and black. When it has eaten, then it sucks in air; it is said that thus it gets water. And from the wind it knows when the frost is about to come. Then it begins to sing.\n\n##### Loggerhead shrike[^29]\n\nIts wings are \n\n\n\n\n[^27]: *Youaltlotli: gavilán nocturno, Nauclero furcatus*, or *Chordeiles acutipennis texensis*, according to Sahagún (Garibay ed.), Vol. IV, p. 372.\n\n\n[^28]: *Necuilictli:* as *ecachichinqui*, it is *Falco columbarius* in *ibid.,* p. 335, and Martín del Campo, *op. cit.,* p. 403; *ecachichinqui* is whip-poor-will or *Caprimulgus vociferus* Wilson in Friedmann *et al.,* I, p. 156; as *tletleton* or *cenotzqui* it is *Falco columbarius* subspecies in Martín del Campo, *loc. cit.,* and Friedmann *et al., op. cit.,* p. 66.\n\n\n[^29]: *Tetzompa: Lanius ludovicianus* Linnaeus; *ibid.,* Pt. II, p. 214.","html":"ducks, and only for the purpose of eating them. Wherever they find the birds, there they hunt them.
\nAlso their legs are yellow.
\nThe Obsidian Falcon: its name is also tletleuhtzin. It is small, bold; a whirrer; a bird of prey.
\nIt is the same as a falcon. It is named youaltlotli because it sees in the dark: it can hunt, it can strike its prey.
\n—or necuiloctli, or ecachichinqui; and they name it cenotzqui and tletleuhton.2 It is of average size. The bill is pointed, small and pointed. It is an eater of mice, of lizards, of çacacilin [birds]. It is an airsucker. It is [spotted] yellow and black. When it has eaten, then it sucks in air; it is said that thus it gets water. And from the wind it knows when the frost is about to come. Then it begins to sing.
\nIts wings are
\nYoualtlotli: gavilán nocturno, Nauclero furcatus, or Chordeiles acutipennis texensis, according to Sahagún (Garibay ed.), Vol. IV, p. 372.↩
Necuilictli: as ecachichinqui, it is Falco columbarius in ibid., p. 335, and Martín del Campo, op. cit., p. 403; ecachichinqui is whip-poor-will or Caprimulgus vociferus Wilson in Friedmann et al., I, p. 156; as tletleton or cenotzqui it is Falco columbarius subspecies in Martín del Campo, loc. cit., and Friedmann et al., op. cit., p. 66.↩
Tetzompa: Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus; ibid., Pt. II, p. 214.↩