The male halcyon,[1] which dies in intercourse. Euphronios reports that the Dorians say "would that, would that I were a κηρύλος ";[2] but the Attic-speakers [call it] κειρύλος . When the males grow old the females support them with their wings. And perhaps [the word] is formed from the [verb] κείρειν ["to cut the hair"], for Sporgilos was a barber. Plato mentions him in Sophists: "Sporgilos' barbershop, most hateful shack."[3]