Nicobar pigeon; Caloenas nicobarica; near threatened; native to the Nicobar Islands and Malaysia. 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.