diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index a420266561c5a..7b5f310315485 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -1215,6 +1215,8 @@ def from_records(cls, data, index=None, exclude=None, columns=None,
         coerce_float : boolean, default False
             Attempt to convert values of non-string, non-numeric objects (like
             decimal.Decimal) to floating point, useful for SQL result sets
+        nrows : int, default None
+            Number of rows to read if data is an iterator
 
         Returns
         -------