<P> In 1779 English illustrator John Frederick Miller was the first European to describe the secretarybird, and it was soon after assigned to its own genus Sagittarius by French naturalist Johann Hermann in his Tabula Affinitatum Animalium . It was not until 1935 that the species was moved to its own family, distinct from all other birds of prey--a classification confirmed by molecular systematics . Recent cladistic analysis has shown Sagittariidae to be an older branch of the diurnal birds of prey than Accipitridae and Falconidae, but a younger divergence than Cathartidae . Sometimes, the enigmatic bird Eremopezus is classified as an early relative of the secretarybird, though this is uncertain as the bird is only known from a few fragmentary body parts such as the legs . The earliest fossils associated with the family are two species from the genus Pelargopappus . The two species, from the Oligocene and Miocene respectively, were not discovered in Africa but France . The feet in these fossils are more like those of the Accipitridae; it is suggested that these characteristics are primitive features within the family . In spite of their age, it is not thought that the two species are ancestral to the secretary bird . </P> <P> Though strongly convergent with the modern secretarybird, the extinct raptor Apatosagittarius is thought to be an accipitrid . </P> <P> Its common name is popularly thought to derive from the crest of long quill - like feathers, lending the bird the appearance of a secretary with quill pens tucked behind their ear, as was once common practice . A more recent hypothesis is that "secretary" is borrowed from a French corruption of the Arabic saqr - et - tair or "hunter - bird". </P> <P> The generic name Sagittarius is Latin for "archer", perhaps likening the secretary bird's "quills" to a quiver of arrows, and the specific epithet serpentarius recalls the bird's skill as a hunter of reptiles . </P>

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