found: Work cat.: Kaplan G. Australian Magpie, c2004:p. 4 (recently the cracticids have been lumped into the artamids; family Artamidae in Australia now consists of four genera and fifteen species--five species of butcherbird, three species of currawong, six species of woodswallow, one species of magpie)
found: Birds Australia web site, Dec. 3, 2004:HANZAB list of species upd. 2003 (family Artamidae)
found: MacKinnon, J. A field guide to the birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali, c1983:p. 369 (family Artamidae, wood-swallows)
found: Science daily encyc. via WWW, Feb. 28, 2005(Artamidae: The family gathers together 20 species of crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas. There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows and Cracticinae, the cracticids, currawongs, magpie, and butcherbirds)