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- 1 2 "Annual Pilgrimage of Mexican Humming Birds Back to Texas Noted, Legion Veteran States". Kerrville Mountain Sun. April 20, 1939. Retrieved July 27, 2021– via Newspapers.com
. - 1 2 "W. R. (Robert) Sullivan, Legion, Texas". Tejas Hummingbird Feeders. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
- 1 2 "Legion Hospital Is Humming-Bird Sanctuary Without Equal in State". The Kerrville Times . July 23, 1936. Retrieved August 25, 2021– via Newspapers.com .
- ↑ "Humming Birds, 'Tamed' By Legion Hospital Patients, Starting South for Winter" (PDF). Houston Chronicle . September 4, 1936. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
- ↑ Lincoln, F. C. "F. C. Lincoln letter to W. R. Sullivan" (June 11, 1936). W. R. Sullivan Papers. Austin, Texas: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. 85-168.
- ↑ Crandall, Lee S. "Lee S. Crandall letter to W. R. Sullivan" (July 21, 1941). W. R. Sullivan Papers. Austin, Texas: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. 85-168.
- ↑ Sullivan, W. R. "W. R. Sullivan letter to H. Hittson" (May 22, 1942). W. R. Sullivan Papers. Austin, Texas: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. 85-168.
