Llámanse también estas aves nochtótotl, que quiere decir "páxaros de las tunas", porque su comer más continuo son tunas. Y comen también chían y maíz molido, y maíz cocido molido.
\nHay unas avecillas en esta tierra que se llaman cocotli. Y a todos los españoles las llaman tortolillas. No son tan grandes como las de Castilla; pero son de aquella color. Son bajuelas. Tienen las alas rubíes. Son pintadillas. Tienen la pluma muy lisa. Tienen los pies colorados y bajuelos. Llámanse cocotli porque cuando cantan dicen coco coco. Comen semillas de las yerbas, y también chían. No se casan más de una vez. Y cuando muere el uno, el otro siempre anda como llorando, y solitario, diciendo coco coco. Dicen que la carne destas aves, comida, es contra la tristeza. A las mujeres celosas danlas a comer la carne destas aves para que olviden los celos, y también los hombres.
\nThese birds are also called nochtototl, which means “birds of the prickly pears,” because prickly pears are their most frequent meal. And they also eat chian, ground maize, and cooked ground maize.
\nThere are some little birds in this land that are called cocohtli. And the Spaniards call all these [birds] “little turtledoves.” They are not as big as those from Castile, but they are the same color. They are rather squat. They have ruby-colored wings. They have little spots. They have very smooth feathers. Their feet are red and rather short. They are called cocohtli because when they sing, they say “coco coco.” They eat plant seeds, as well as chian. They never mate more than once. And when one of them dies, the other always goes about as if crying and lonely, saying, “coco coco.” They say that the meat of these birds, when eaten, is good for sadness. They give the meat of these birds to jealous women, so that they forget their jealousy; and [they also give it] to men.
\nçan ie no ie in molotl, manoço quachichil: ic motocaiotia nochtototl, in quachichiltic; yoan jtzintenpan chichiltic. Oc cenca ipampa; in vel itlaqual nochtli. In qujqua: oauhtli, chien, tlaoltextli, nextamaltextli.
\npachtontli, tlalpanton: amatlapalalactic, chiencujcujltic, çolcujcujltic, tetzictontli: xochichiltic, xopapachton. auh itlatoltitech tlaantli: injc mjtoa cocotli, in jtlatol qujtoa: coco, coco. In jtlaqual: chicalutl, chien, mexixin ixinacho çan ce in jnamjc: in jquac mjquj, muchipa iuhqujn chocatica: qujtoa coco, coco. auh qujl tetlaoaculpolo: qujl qujpoloa in netequjpacholli, in jnacaio: in chaoazqujme qujn qualtia in jnacaio: injc qujl caoazque chaoaiotl.
\nIt is the same as the common house finch or quachichil. It is named nochtototl because the head is chili-red and its rump is bordered with chili-red; especially because its real food is tuna. It eats amaranth [seed], chia, ground maize, ground maize treated with lime.
\nIt is small and squat, near the ground. The wings are spotted like chia, like quail, smooth. The legs are chili-red, short. And it is from its song that it is called cocotli; its song says, coco, coco. Its food is seed of argemone, chía, lepidium. It has only one mate. When [its mate] dies,2 it always goes about as if weeping, saying, coco, coco. And it is said that it destroys one’s grief, that its flesh destroys one’s torment and affliction. They make the jealous eat of its flesh; thus they will forget [their] jealousy.3
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