Principal English Translation:
Canyon Towhee, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)
Attestations from sources in English:
ILAMA-TŌTŌ-TL, literally, “old woman bird,” Canyon Towhee (Melozone fuscus) [FC: 47 Ilamatototl] “It is ashen, chalky; ashen-backed. It is roundish, blunt-billed. It has a small crest. Its home is everywhere in settlements.” Canyon Towhee. This common village bird seems to best fit the description.
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analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.