EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit: 
Be it remembered, That on the 27th day of April, in the fifty-third year 
of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1829, 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: 
Jlmerican Ornithology, or the J^atural History of the Birds of the United States. 
Illustrated with plates engi'aved and coloured from original drawings taken from 
J^alure. By Alexander Wilson. With a sketch of the .Author's Life, by George 
Ord, F. L. S. Sfc. In three Volumes. — Vol. III. 
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 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 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. 
