Commentary for Zevachim 160:2

ואי אמרת אין בילה אמאי עלו לו דילמא קיהיב עליונים למטה והתחתונים למעלה

Come and hear: If he [the priest] sprinkled [iff without asking. R. Eliezer said: He must re-sprinkle above, and the lower [blood] acquits him? - Here too the excess was upper [blood], and he sprinkles above the quantity of the lower blood plus a little more. But he teaches that the lower [blood] acquits him? - [It counts] as the residue.

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