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diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/input/ProxyInputStream.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/input/ProxyInputStream.java
index fb40ae1..b5741cd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/input/ProxyInputStream.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/input/ProxyInputStream.java
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
* </p>
*
* @since 2.0
- * @param n number of bytes read, or -1 if the end of stream was reached
- * @throws IOException if the post-processing fails
+ * @param n number of bytes read, or -1 if the end of stream was reached.
+ * @throws IOException if the post-processing fails in a subclass.
*/
@SuppressWarnings("unused") // Possibly thrown from subclasses.
protected void afterRead(final int n) throws IOException {
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@
* </p>
*
* @since 2.0
- * @param n number of bytes that the caller asked to be read
- * @throws IOException if the pre-processing fails
+ * @param n number of bytes that the caller asked to be read.
+ * @throws IOException if the pre-processing fails in a subclass.
*/
@SuppressWarnings("unused") // Possibly thrown from subclasses.
protected void beforeRead(final int n) throws IOException {
