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cuammeca tecolotl.

Headword: 
cuammeca tecolotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a little owl, a red owl; a known bird (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quammeca tecolotl
Alonso de Molina: 

quammeca tecolotl. mochuelo, aue conocida.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 85r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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