They are sometimes called "barking" wolves; because, as we have noticed, the first two or three notes of their howl resemble the bark of a dog.

It ends, however, in a prolonged and disagreeable scream.
"I am glad it is they," said Lucien, in reply to Basil's remark.

"It is well it is no worse.

I was afraid it was our friends, the javalies, who had come to pay us a visit." "Bad enough as it is," said Basil.

"We shall now have to keep awake, and guard the meat, or these skulking jackals would not leave us an ounce of it by morning." "That is true enough," replied Lucien; "but we need not all watch.