The path that connects the lower edge of the scroll, through the lines of the tusks, with the horizon above and the sun rising at the top, forms the shape of the cosmic egg from which the secretary bird rises.
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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.
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Ignoring that everybody knows that the ibis is the sacred bird of ancient egypt and also ignoring that the Secretary Birds habitate now doesn't extend to egypt, i'd think it has some similarities . 84.160.213.25 20 : 43, 8 June 2007 ( UTC)
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The secretary bird was chosen as a distinctively Sudanese and indigenous variant of the " Eagle of Saladin " and " Hawk of Quraish " seen in the emblems of some Arab states, and associated with Arab nationalism ( see Coat of arms of Egypt, etc . ).
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Other fauna in the area also includes aardvark, eagle, Ethiopian wolf, Egyptian wolf, gelada, secretary bird, Nubian ibex, and marabou stork and Ethiopian endemic species such as the shrew, " Crocidura harenna " and the narrow-footed woodland mouse ( " Grammomys minnae " ) and Menelik s bushbuck ( " Tragelaphus scriptus meneliki " ), which is a subspecies with long, dark fur.
