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Keel-billed Toucan, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)
XOCHI-TENACAL, literally, “flower beak, Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulphuratus) [FC: 22 Xochitenacal] “The forest is its abode, the forest is its home. It breeds especially there in Totonaca country {coastal central Veracruz} [and] in Cuextlan; it raises its young in the trees. It merely builds a bag-like nest for its young [and] suspends them [this describes an oropendola or cacique nest, not that of a toucan]. The bill is long, concave [a mistranslation of "tenalcaltic"]; rather, "boat-shaped bill, <ĀCAL-LI, "boat">, yellow…. For this reason, it is called xochitenacal: about its throat [and] neck [the feathers] are very yellow... flower yellow. And its head and body are dark, dark green. And its wings and its tail are tawny and black mingled with white. The Bill widens; it becomes