District of Pennsijlvania, to wit : 



REMEMBERED, That on the fifth day of June, hi 

 # r c* # the thirty-sixth Year of the Independence of the United States 

 tJ^'Jl:* of America, A. D. 1812, ALEXANDER WILSON of the said 

 District, hath deposited in tliis office the Title of a Book, the 

 right whereof he claims as Author, in the words foUowing, to wit : 



"American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United 

 " States. Illustrated wth Plates, engraved and colored from Original draw- 

 " ings taken from Nature. By Alexander Wilson." 

 In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled " An 

 Act for the Encouragement of Learnmg, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts 

 and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies dm-ing 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 therem mentioned," and extending the Benefits thereof 

 to the Ai"ts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and otlier Prints." 



D. CALDWELL, 

 Clerh of the District of Pennsylvania. 



