Montezuma Quail, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); also, a person's name (attested as male)
ZŌL-IN/ZŌL-LI, Montezuma Quail (Cyrtonix montezumae) [FC: 49 Çolin/Çolli]: “Its bill is pointed, ashen-green. Its breast is spotted with white; its wings are called chia-spotted. It is a runner…. It has eggs. When it lays eggs, when it hatches its young, it lays forty eggs. It hatches indeed fifty young. It food is dried grains of maize, chia, and xoxocoyolteuilotl.” Martin del Campo identified this bird as the Montezuma Quail. Though there are perhaps four species of quail that live near or in the Valley of Mexico, this species best fits the description. Of the local Central Mexican quail species, only the Montezuma is distinctly spotted. The Montezuma Quail is known to lay up to 12 eggs, but females may adopt neighbor’s broods. Males (TECU-ZOLI) and females (OHUATON) may be distinguished nomenclaturally.
huítzilin , Yhuá Pizíetl Co pallí , Xochí ocotzotl. âhuí altic, totoch tin coamê, Zolimê; camochí ynin cenca míec quin míctiaya .y huá Yxpan qui hue n manaya ynin theoû Camaxtle = hummingbird, and tobacco incense, liquid nectar, rabbits, snakes, and quails— for they killed all these together and spread the offerings out before their god Camaxtli
ytequitqui ytoca zolly = The tribute payer is named Çolin. (male) (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
njman oc no ce tlacatl oalluah, çolin qujcotonjlia, in malli, in oaoantli, yn oconquechcoton çolin, conjaujlia yn ichimal malli: Auh in çolli, icampa comaiauj = Then still another man, [a priest] came out and cut the throat of a quail for the captive, him who was to be offered as a sacrifice; and when he had beheaded the quail, he raised [to the sun] the captive’s shield, and cast the quail away, behind him. (16th century, Mexico City)
Diego Çoli is mentioned in parish records of San Bartolomé Capulhuac (Acapulhuac, Capolohuac, etc.) of 1618. He married Lucia Tlaxuh.