zolin.

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.
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analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.

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
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 37.

ytequitqui ytoca zolly = The tribute payer is named Çolin. (male) (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 154–155. See also 156–157.

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)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2—The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 51.

Diego Çoli is mentioned in parish records of San Bartolomé Capulhuac (Acapulhuac, Capolohuac, etc.) of 1618. He married Lucia Tlaxuh.
Salt Lake City, Geneaological Library, microfilm 695644, 1612–1651. Harvested from the microfilm by Stephanie Wood.

zolin = sacrificed in many ceremonies, such as during the banquets of the pochteca, when slaves that were to be put to death had to sacrifice a quail first, or when, in the ceremony of "Tlacaxipehualiztli ('Flaying of Men), a quail was beheaded just in front of the captive who was going to fight for his life in the rite known as tlahuahuanaliztli or “striping” (Sahagún 1950– 1982, 2:52; Sahagún 1969, 1:145).
Elena Mazzetto, "Quail in the Religious Life of the Ancient Nahuas," in Susan Milbrath and Elizabeth Baquedano, eds., Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023, 206.