perched in a tree (see Molina; translation to English by Stephanie Wood)
Orthographic Variants:
quauhtlecoc
Alonso de Molina:
quauhtlecoc. encaramado en arbol. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 87v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.