Eastsiih Distbict ot Peskstitania, to wit : 
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the second day of September, in the fiftieth 
year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1825, George Ord, 
of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof 
he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : 
“ Supplement to the American Ornithology of Alexander Wilson, Containing a 
Sketch of the Author’s life, with a Selection from his Letters ; some Remarks upon his 
Writings; and a History of those Birds which were intended to compose part of his 
Ninth volume. Illustrated with Plates, engraved from Wilson's original Drawings. By 
George Orel, F, L. S. Member of the Am. Phil. Soc. and of the Acad. Nat. Sciences 
of Philadelphia; and Correspondent of the Philomathic Society of Paris.” 
In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, intituled, ” An act 
for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, 
to the authors and proprietors ot such copies, during 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 ex- 
tending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical 
and other prints.” 
D. CALDWELL, 
Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 
T. H. PALMER, PRINTER. 
