Headword:
xopantototl.
Principal English Translation:
Lesser Goldfinch, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)
Orthographic Variants:
xopan tototl, miahuatototl, miyahuatototl
Attestations from sources in English:
XOPAN-TŌTŌ-TL, literally, “summer bird,” Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) [FC: 52 xopan tototl]. Synonym of MIYAHUA-TŌTŌ-TL, the Lesser Goldfinch.
bibl>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University of Utah, 1963); and, E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.