diff --git a/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py b/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py
index 1c3d37912743b..4c8437736ea35 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@
 
 Returns
 -------
-DataFrame or TextParser
+DataFrame or TextFileReader
     A comma-separated values (csv) file is returned as two-dimensional
     data structure with labeled axes.