diff --git a/mastodon/Mastodon.py b/mastodon/Mastodon.py
index ab0071b..c35ad2d 100644
--- a/mastodon/Mastodon.py
+++ b/mastodon/Mastodon.py
@@ -1419,6 +1419,7 @@ class MastodonError(Exception):
 
 
 class MastodonIllegalArgumentError(ValueError, MastodonError):
+    """Raised when an incorrect parameter is passed to a function"""
     pass
 
 
@@ -1427,16 +1428,24 @@ class MastodonIOError(IOError, MastodonError):
 
 
 class MastodonFileNotFoundError(MastodonIOError):
+    """Raised when a file requested to be loaded can not be opened"""
     pass
 
 
 class MastodonNetworkError(MastodonIOError):
+    """Raised when network communication with the server fails"""
     pass
 
 
 class MastodonAPIError(MastodonError):
+    """Raised when the mastodon API generates a response that cannot be handled"""
     pass
 
 
 class MastodonRatelimitError(MastodonError):
+    """Raised when rate limiting is set to manual mode and the rate limit is exceeded"""
+    pass
+
+class MastodonMalformedEventError(MastodonError):
+    """Raised when the server-sent event stream is malformed"""
     pass
diff --git a/mastodon/__init__.py b/mastodon/__init__.py
index 9c8e39b..3123356 100644
--- a/mastodon/__init__.py
+++ b/mastodon/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 from mastodon.Mastodon import Mastodon
-from mastodon.streaming import StreamListener, MalformedEventError
+from mastodon.streaming import StreamListener
 
-__all__ = ['Mastodon', 'StreamListener', 'MalformedEventError']
+__all__ = ['Mastodon', 'StreamListener']
diff --git a/mastodon/streaming.py b/mastodon/streaming.py
index c202ff6..cac2456 100644
--- a/mastodon/streaming.py
+++ b/mastodon/streaming.py
@@ -4,16 +4,9 @@ https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/docs/Using-the-API/Streaming-A
 """
 
 import json
-import logging
 import six
 from mastodon import Mastodon
-
-log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-
-class MalformedEventError(Exception):
-    """Raised when the server-sent event stream is malformed."""
-    pass
-
+from mastodon.Mastodon import MastodonMalformedEventError
 
 class StreamListener(object):
     """Callbacks for the streaming API. Create a subclass, override the on_xxx
@@ -55,7 +48,7 @@ class StreamListener(object):
                 line = raw_line.decode('utf-8')
             except UnicodeDecodeError as err:
                 six.raise_from(
-                    MalformedEventError("Malformed UTF-8", line),
+                    MastodonMalformedEventError("Malformed UTF-8", line),
                     err
                 )
 
@@ -85,14 +78,14 @@ class StreamListener(object):
             payload = json.loads(data, object_hook = Mastodon._Mastodon__json_hooks)
         except KeyError as err:
            six.raise_from(
-               MalformedEventError('Missing field', err.args[0], event),
+               MastodonMalformedEventError('Missing field', err.args[0], event),
                err
            )
         except ValueError as err:
            # py2: plain ValueError
            # py3: json.JSONDecodeError, a subclass of ValueError
            six.raise_from(
-               MalformedEventError('Bad JSON', data),
+               MastodonMalformedEventError('Bad JSON', data),
                err
            )