Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus Scientific name definitions

The Bare-faced Go-away-bird is confined to eastern Africa, where it is distributed in two disjunct populations (and subspecies); the first of these is more or less endemic to the Ethiopian Rift Valley, whereas the other occurs from southern Uganda and southwestern Kenya south to northwestern Malawi and adjacent northeastern Zambia. Its ecology is not well known, but the species inhabits open woodland, Acacia thornbush, thickets, cultivation with scattered trees, evergreen scrub, cedar woodland, and riverine acacias, at elevations between 500 m and 2,200 m, but mainly at 1,000‒2,000 m. Throughout its range, the species is largely sedentary. This Crinifer is a large-bodied, generally dull-colored bird, with a bare, dark face, chin, and upper throat, dark upperparts, a patch of pale green on the breast merging into the pinkish-brown belly, and white posterior underparts. The two populations show quite a number of plumage distinctions, and some authorities (both past and present) have considered the subspecies to be better ranked as species.