TABLE 1.

Tick prevalence in migratory birds in autumn in central Japan and Borrelia prevalence in larval and nymphal H. flava removed from them

Species	No. of birds with ticks/total no. of birds examined	Larvae			Nymphs
		Total no. removed	No. positive/no. tested for ticks that were:		Total no. removed	No. positive/no. tested for ticks that were:
			Unmolted	Molted to nymphs		Unmolted	Molted to adults
Anthus hodgsoni	1/5	2	0/1		0
Cettia diphone	1/73	1	0/1		0
Emberiza spodocephala	20/668	19	1/14		10	0/8	0/2
Emberiza variabillis	3/30	4	0/4		0
Emberiza cioides	1/5	1	NTb		0
Ficedula narcissina	1/27	0			1	0/1
Otus bakkamoena	2/5	1	0/1		5	0/5
Otus scops	1/1	1	0/1		2	0/2
Parus varius	1/10	2	0/1		0
Phasianus soemmerringii	1/1	3	0/3		0
Turdus cardis	34/97	42	1/32	0/2	31	0/26
Turdus obscurus	4/67	1	0/1		3	0/3
Turdus pallidus	86/271	100	10/34	0/46	112	15/61	1/38
Othersa	0/473

^aIncludes 27 species of 21 genera (Accipiter, Aegithalos, Carpodacus, Cettia, Cyanoptila, Erithacus, Emberiza, Ficedula, Fringilla, Garrulus, Hypsipetes, Lanius, Muscicapa, Parus, Phoenicurus, Phylloscopus, Picus, Pyrrhula, Tarsiger, Turdus, and Zosteops). 

^bNT, not tested.