CUA-CHICHIL/CUA-CHICHILTIC/NŌCH-TŌTŌ-TL, House Finch, male [FC: 48 Quachichil] “It is the same as the molotl, but because it is chili-red-headed it is named quachichil.” This is the male House Finch. See also NŌCH-TŌTŌ-TL. Compare CUĀ-CHICHIQUIL-LI “feather crest” [Molina in Karttunen].
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 11 – Earthly Things, no. 14, Part XII, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1963); Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (University of Oklahoma, Norman, 1983); and, with quotation selections, synthesis, and analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.
See a painting of this bird on line in the Digital Florentine Codex:
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 51v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/51v/images/9d1691cf-a... Accessed 18 October 2025.