tzinitzcan (FCbk11f20v)

This iconographic example, featuring a mountain trogon bird (tzinitzcan, also called the teotzinitzcan), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the Nahuatl text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a profile view of a bird walking toward the viewer’s right. Its left foot is raised in motion. Its beak, legs, and feet are all yellow. Its body is a gray-brown, but its wing and tail feathers have some turquoise blue mixed in. Some white feathers also appear on the face, at the top of the wing, and above the legs.