XOCHI-TŌTŌ-TL, literally, “flower bird,” Black-backed Oriole (Icterus abeillei) [FC: 45 Xochitototl] “Its throat, breast, [and] belly are yellow: flower-like, well textured. It has a face-band. Its head, back, wings, [and] tail are [black] mingled with white, in wavy line. Its legs are black.” This is certainly the Black-backed Oriole, now considered a species distinct from the Bullock’s Oriole (Icterus bullockii) of Martin del Campo’s list.
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); 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analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.
Pedro Xochitototl = a personal name, attested male, a Mexica, arrested in Mexico City for protesting rising tributes in July 1564
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 222–223.