Note 13 — THE ANNALS OF THE CAKCHIQUELS. (continued 2)

This and the following section describes the efforts of certain inimical powers, under the guise of birds, to obstruct and deceive the Cakchiquels. The chahalçivan is a small bird which builds in the rocky sides of the ravines, and is called by the Spaniards by a literal translation, “El guarda barranca,” the gully-guard. The tucur is the owl; this name being apparently an abbreviation of the Nahuatl tecolotl. The bird called anixt[198] is the Spanish cotorra, a small species of parrot. (Guzman, Compendio de Nombres, MS.)