EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit: 



BE tT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-fourth day of April, in the 

 fifty-second year of the independence of the United States of America, A. 

 D. 1828, HARRISON HALL, of the said district, hath deposited in this office 

 the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words 

 following, to wit: 



American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. 

 Illustrated with plates engraved and coloured from original drawings taken from 

 Nature. By Alexander Wilson. With a sketch of the Author's Life, by George 

 Ord, F. L. S. Sfc. Jn three Volumes. Vol. I. 



In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, entitled 

 " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of 

 maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies du- 

 ring the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled, " An 

 act supplementary to an act, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of 

 learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors 

 and proprietors of such" copies during the times therein mentioned, and 

 extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and 

 etching historical and other prints." 



D. CALDWELL, 

 Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 



