Real was said to have been named after the pavo real or the Indian peafowl, but this was curious because the bird is endemic to the Indian Subcontinent.  Image source:  BS Thurner Hof [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
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