tletleuhtzin.

Headword: 
tletleuhtzin.
Principal English Translation: 

Bat Falcon, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

TLETLEUH-TZIN, Bat Falcon (Falco rufiguaris) [FC: 45 tletleuhtzin]: "It is small, bold; a whirrer; a bird of prey." Synonym of ITZ-TLOH-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analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.

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