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240 BIRDS, such as parrots, canaries, love-birds, and others, are very suitable for children. They have all been described under their several heads, in the body of the book.

BLUEBEARD. Flowing Eastern robe; red silk turban; scarf of many colours round waist; loose silk trousers to ankle, one yellow the other red; red pointed shoes; beard, blue; carries key.

BOY BLUE. Dressed as Gainsborough's Blue Boy. Black shoes, with large blue rosettes; the same at knee; blue stockings and velvet breeches; close-fitting jacket, buttoning in front; blue cloak, fastened to shoulders, bordered with gold braid; the sleeves to wrist, with Vandyke lace cuffs, and slashed twice inside the arm, showing white under-sleeve; large lace collar; plumed hat; hair curled.

BUCKINGHAM, JOHN VILLIERS, FIRST DUKE OF, DAUGHTER OF (after Gerard Hornthorst). White satin dress with a Medici ruff of point lace, the puff sleeves edged with tiny lace ruffles and taken in with pink ribbons tied into bows; waistband and front bow are formed of ribbons of the same colour; the bell-shaped under-skirt is, like the bodice, arranged in narrow plaits, and the over-skirt opens in front. The latter appears, in the original at Hampton Court, to be made of silver-striped gauze or muslin, which could be replaced by rose-coloured silk or velvet; strings of pearls form the necklace and the armlets, and a chain of jet beads hangs across the bust.

BUNTHORN (Patience). Velvet jacket and breeches; large flat velvet cap, with wig of long hair beneath; velvet shoes, and silk stockings.

BUTTERFLY (For child of two to three). Short skirt of blue foulard, with an over-skirt of gauze; low bodice, with a waistband fastened in front with bows; two wings are attached to the middle of back, made of gauze, edged with fine wire; silk stockings; blue satin boots. Or, Canndian Butterfly: Bodice of green plush elongated into a point which falls on to the short yellow tulle skirt; short, puffed sleeves; gauze wings at back forming tunic; butterfly on head; green gloves and shoes with butterflies; butterfly fan. (See Coloured Illustration, Plate XVI.)

CANACE (Chaucer). Dress of terra cotta silk, close