xiuhcozcatl.

Headword: 
xiuhcozcatl.
Principal English Translation: 

domestic Wild Turkey, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhcozca
Attestations from sources in English: 

XIUH-COZCA/XIUH-COZCA-TL [FC: 53 xiuhcozca], synonyms for the domestic Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). See under main heading, TŌTO-LIN. This is also a variant of XIHUA-PAL-QUECHŌL
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analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.