Pouter or cropper pigeon; Columba livia gutturosa subrubicunda; breed of fancy pigeon. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by Edward Lear from Prideaux John Selby's volume 鈥楶igeons' in Sir William Jardine's 鈥楴aturalist's Library: Ornithology;' published by W.H. Lizars; Edinburgh; 1835. Artist Edward Lear (1812-1888); today most famous for his literary nonsense and limericks; was a skilled ornithological artist who published 鈥業llustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots' in 1832.