diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
index 491afdd610ca08..a510e1e638a73d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
@@ -88,10 +88,12 @@ Stream functions
 StreamReader
 ============
 
-.. class:: StreamReader(limit=None, loop=None)
+.. class:: StreamReader(limit=_DEFAULT_LIMIT, loop=None)
 
    This class is :ref:`not thread safe <asyncio-multithreading>`.
 
+   The *limit* argument's default value is set to _DEFAULT_LIMIT which is 2**16 (64 KiB)
+
    .. method:: exception()
 
       Get the exception.