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1) Bubblehead, a bird (see Hunn, in attestations);
2) an ear plug made of paper (see Campbell, in attestations)
AMANACOCHE, Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) [FC: 35-36 Amanacoche] “It is called amanacoche because of its white feathers placed on both sides of its head. It is the size of the [Green-winged Teal]….” I agree with Martin del Campo that this is certainly the Bufflehead. See also CANAUH-TLI “duck.”
auh in inechichihual tezcatzoncatl, aztatzone, yacametze, amanacoche = "and the array of tezcatzoncatl [was thus]: he had the white heron feather headdress; he had the crescent-shaped nose ornament, the ear plug of paper. (Florentine Codex, b.1 f.3 p.51)