a gossiper (see Molina); Imperial Woodpecker, bird (see Hunn, attestations)
CHIQUIMO-LIN, Imperial Woodpecker (Campephilus imperialis) [FC: 52 Chiqujmoli] “It is large as a grackle. It is crested. Dark colored is its crest; white its bill; black spotted with ashen are its feathers. Its throat is yellow…. Its food is tree worms; it extracts the worms from the trees. And it nests, it breeds within the tree; it makes a hole in the tree. And when its sings, it cries out much, it warbles, something like whistling with the fingers; and it sings as if there were many birds. And when it seems to shriek, it is angry…. And where there is contention, one is called chiquimolin for this reason.” Martin del Campo identified this as the Ladder-backed Woodpecker. Though it is clearly a woodpecker, the description would better fit a large crested species with a pale bill. The Pale-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis) is the closest contemporary candidate. However, given that this species was accorded exceptional respect, I suspect it could well have referred instead to the now-extinct (last reported 1956) Imperial Woodpecker, at one time the largest woodpecker in the world and historically resident in highland pine forest of the Sierra Madre Occidental south to near the Valley of Mexico (Howell & Webb).
ma ticmocuitlahui in tlacatlatolli; ma yuhqui timaquizcoatl, tichiquimolin timochiuhtinen (Debe decir: tlatlatolli, de tlatlatoa —frecuentativo de tlatoa— hablar mucho) = ten cuidado de palabrerías; no andes haciendo como maquizcóatl, como chiquimolin (centro de México, s. XVI)