TLOH-CUĀUH-TLI, literally, “falcon eagle/hawk,” American Goshawk (Accipiter atricapillus) [FC: 43 Tlhoquauhtl]: “Also it is called tlacotlotli. It is large, ashen. It hunts rabbits.” Martin del Campo suggests this as another name for the Northern Harrier, but it more likely refers instead to the Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), as harriers are not likely to prey on rabbits, preferring mice. The goshawk is more than double the weight of the harrier and often hunts rabbits (Sibley).
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); Rafael Martín del Campo, “Ensayo de interpretación del Libro Undecimo de la Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España de Fray Bernardino de Sahagún – 11 Las Aves (1),” Anales del Instituto de Biología Tomo XI, Núm. 1 (México, D.F., 1940); David Allen Sibley. The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014); 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analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.