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.