Rufous crab hawk

It is not very large; average in size, somewhat the same as the turkey hen living here. It is named mixcoaquauhtli because at the back of its head are its feathers, paired feathers forming its head pendant. It is white across the eyes, joined, touching the black; so is the face adorned. Its bill is yellow, curved. All its feathers are somewhat black [trimmed with] yellow. Its legs are yellow. It lives everywhere and is also a bird of prey. The different eagles mentioned inhabit inaccessible places, among the crags; [there] they nest, lay eggs, hatch their young. And they hunt them in this way: so that their young may be taken, the hunter places a palm-leaf or solid reed basket on his head. When the eagle becomes angry, it sets out to seize the palm-leaf basket; it carries it off. Very high it carries it. From there it drops it, thinking it is the hunter. When [the eagle] has released it, then it comes thundering down on it. But the hunter has meanwhile removed its young far away. The eagle´s food is flesh.