Green Shrike-Vireo

Green Shrike-Vireo (Vireolanius pulchellus), TACHITOHUIYA

“It is small and green, small and round; a companion of the woodsman. It is named tachitouya because of its song, because its song says tachitouya. Whomever it sees, it comes along with him, singing as it goes; it goes along making [the sound] tachitouya” (FC, p. 46).

Audio recording by Daniel Garrigues. From the Macauley Library ML437064121. Photo by William Hemstrom.

Cf. page 73 in The Aztec Fascination with Birds monograph.

References Cited
Quoted material from the Florentine Codex (FC): Reprinted from Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain, Book 11, Earthly Things¸ by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, translated by Arthur J.O. Anderson, and Charles E. Dibble with permission from School for American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Copyright 1981.