Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1910, Vol. 12: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds

What is probably a typical nest of the American Crossbill is described by Mr. Bicknell. The locality was, Riverdale, a suburb of New York City. The nest was placed eighteen feet from the ground in a scantily branched cedar. The nest mass was inwrought with a number of the cedar twigs. Bits of spruce made up the nest foundation. The next layer was of cedar bark, the third, which was loosely fitted in, was of various finer materials. The lining was of horsehair, grass, rootlets, bits of string, and a few feathers. The site of the nesting was in plain View from passing roadways. On the whole, the nest was rather shallow. Let us compare an account of British nesting, by Charles Dixon: The Crossbill nests in firs or other evergreens. A number of twigs are loosely laid together, these, with grasses and rootlets, forming the outside of the nest. All this is warmly lined with wool, fur, hairs and feathers (birds' Nests).

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