rifleman

noun (plural riflemen)

• 1a soldier armed with a rifle, especially a private in a rifle regiment.
• a person skilled at using a rifle.

• 2a very small, short-tailed, greenish-yellow songbird that feeds on insects on tree bark, native to New Zealand.

  [perhaps so named from a comparison between its plumage and an early military uniform]

  • Acanthisitta chloris, family Xenicidae