Here K=0.51og2e, and I/~ml is the correlation coefficient determinant obtained from the ensemble averages of sample records. When an observed value A~,, is greater than or equal to the critical value, A~=Kz2(~)/N, the null hypothesis of the (m-1)th order, A~,,--~m-N,,-*---0, is rejected at the level of significance e. Here )~2(cQ is the chi-square value with one degree of freedom at c~ and N is sample size. With these statistics it was shown that the order and the values of Markov properties of spike trains of optic tract X-and Y-fibers became higher and larger, respectively, after the light spot presentation; and that the values ~1 due to negative correlation came to increase and returned to the maintained level earlier in Y-fibers than in X-fibers, while the maximum values for X-fibers continued to the light off. It is discussed that Markov properties of spike trains of optic tract fibers in the visual pathway seem to constitute a significant component of the neural information code.