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diff --git a/numpy/lib/arraysetops.py b/numpy/lib/arraysetops.py
index e6ff5bf38..7b103ef3e 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/arraysetops.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/arraysetops.py
@@ -223,10 +223,12 @@ def unique(ar, return_index=False, return_inverse=False,
ret = _unique1d(ar, return_index, return_inverse, return_counts)
return _unpack_tuple(ret)
- if not (-ar.ndim <= axis < ar.ndim):
- raise ValueError('Invalid axis kwarg specified for unique')
+ try:
+ ar = np.swapaxes(ar, axis, 0)
+ except np.AxisError:
+ # this removes the "axis1" or "axis2" prefix from the error message
+ raise np.AxisError(axis, ar.ndim)
- ar = np.swapaxes(ar, axis, 0)
orig_shape, orig_dtype = ar.shape, ar.dtype
# Must reshape to a contiguous 2D array for this to work...
ar = ar.reshape(orig_shape[0], -1)