TABLE 2.

Tick prevalence in migratory birds in autumn in central Japan and Borrelia prevalence in larval and nymphal H. longicornis and some Ixodes species removed from them^a

Species	No. of birds with ticks/total no. of birds examined	Borrelia prevalenceb (no. positive/no. tested) inb:
		H. longicornis		I. columnae	I. persulcatus		I. turdus		Ixodes sp.c
		L	N	L	L	N	L	N	L
Cettia diphone	1/73						0/1
Erithacus calliope	1/8				0/1
Emberiza spodocephala	7/668	0/3		0/1	0/1			0/2
Garrulus glandarius	1/10		0/1
Turdus cardis	2/97							0/1	0/1
Turdus pallidus	8/271				1/1	1/6			0/1

^aBird samples are the same as those used for Table 1. 

^bL, larva; N, nymph. 

^cUnidentified Ixodes species.