Principal English Translation:
Golden-fronted Woodpecker, a bird (see Hunn, attestations), the -tatala part may refer to a large torso or chest
Orthographic Variants:
cuauhtotopotli, quauhtatala, quauhtotopotli
Attestations from sources in English:
CUĀUH-TATALA, Golden-fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes aurifrons) [FC: 46 quauhtatala]: Synonym of CUĀUH-TOTOPO-TLI.
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); 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analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.