diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index e4af03c62..7f86d2a16 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -71,3 +71,4 @@ List of Contributors
   - Rory is the author of the GPU plugin and also contributed the cmake build system and windows continuous integration
 * [Gideon Whitehead](https://github.com/gaw89)
 * [Yi-Lin Juang](https://github.com/frankyjuang)
+* [Andrew Hannigan](https://github.com/andrewhannigan)
diff --git a/python-package/xgboost/sklearn.py b/python-package/xgboost/sklearn.py
index 7216f68f8..57514cc28 100644
--- a/python-package/xgboost/sklearn.py
+++ b/python-package/xgboost/sklearn.py
@@ -195,14 +195,14 @@ class XGBModel(XGBModelBase):
         """Get xgboost type parameters."""
         xgb_params = self.get_params()
         random_state = xgb_params.pop('random_state')
-        if xgb_params['seed'] is not None:
+        if 'seed' in xgb_params and xgb_params['seed'] is not None:
             warnings.warn('The seed parameter is deprecated as of version .6.'
                           'Please use random_state instead.'
                           'seed is deprecated.', DeprecationWarning)
         else:
             xgb_params['seed'] = random_state
         n_jobs = xgb_params.pop('n_jobs')
-        if xgb_params['nthread'] is not None:
+        if 'nthread' in xgb_params and xgb_params['nthread'] is not None:
             warnings.warn('The nthread parameter is deprecated as of version .6.'
                           'Please use n_jobs instead.'
                           'nthread is deprecated.', DeprecationWarning)