a violet-colored hummingbird (see Hunn, attestations)
AYOPAL-HUĪTZIL-IN, literally, "purple dye hummingbird," perhaps the Violet-crowned Hummingbird (Amazilia violiceps) [FC: 24 Aiopalhujtzili] “… is light brown, the color of tunas {fruits of the prickly pear cactus}.” Martin del Campo identified this hummingbird as the Heloise, now Bumblebee, Hummingbird (Selasphorus heloisa). However, the sparce description does not support his identification. the combination of light brown and purple could describe the gray-brown back and violet-blue crown of the Violet-crowned Hummingbird, a common resident of the central Mexican highlands. See also HUĪTZIL-IN, hummingbird.
Note that the color, ayopalli, is a difficult one to translate.