In the case of the water-ouzel, the acutest observer, by examining its dead body, would never have suspected its sub-aquatic habits; yet this bird, which is allied to the thrush family, subsists by diving,-using its wings under water and grasping stones with its feet.
Ur-zozoaren kasuan, behaketari zorrotzenak, hura hilik aztertuz, ez zukeen inoiz susmatuko urpeko azturak dituenik; hala eta guztiz ere, zozoen familiakoa den txori honek uretan murgilduz ateratzen du bizipidea, urpean hegoak erabiliz eta harriei oinez oratuz.