Principal English Translation:
Merlin, a bird (see Hunn, attestations
Attestations from sources in English:
TLETLEUH-TON, literally, “fire,” Merlin (Falco columbarius) [FC: 45 tletleuhton]: This is one of several synonyms cited under the heading of NECUILOC-TLI. See also CENOTZ-QUI, ECA-CHICH-INQUI.
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analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.