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Orange-fronted Parakeet, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)
QUILI-TON, possibly onomatopoetic, Orange-fronted Parakeet (Psitticara canicularis) [FC: 23 Qujliton] “It resembles the young yellow-headed parrot and the white-fronted parrot. It is small, tiny; the small head is chili-red. Everywhere [the body is] herb-green, dark green. The wing covers are dark red. The food is maize…. I give it grains of dried maize to eat.” Three species of Central Mexican parakeets (Psitticara) might fit this description. Only the Orange-fronted Parakeet has what might count as a “red head.” It is also the smallest of the three. Martin del Campo chose the similar Atlantic slope species, the Aztec Parakeet (P. nana). The Green Parakeet (P. holochlora) might also qualify, though it is larger than the first two. I suspect that the name is onomatopoetic, mimicking the calls: “kreer, kreei-kreei, rreek, ree-reeh” (Howell & Webb).
quiliton = "orange-chinned parakeet"
quiliton = "periquito alas amarillas"