Halakhah for Zevachim 128:13
<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> עולת העוף כיצד נעשית עלה לכבש ופנה לסובב בא לו לקרן דרומית מזרחית היה מולק את ראשה ממול ערפה ומבדיל ומיצה את דמה על קיר המזבח נטל את הראש והקיף בית מליקתו למזבח וספגו במלח וזרקו על גבי האשים
WHENCE HE MADE HIS WAY TO THE SOUTH-EAST HORN. HE NIPPED ITS HEAD CLOSE BY THE NECK, AND SEVERED IT,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By nipping both the windpipe and the gullet (Hul. 21b) .');"><sup>20</sup></span> SAND DRAINED OUT ITS BLOOD ON TO THE WALL OF THE ALTAR'HE TOOK THE HEAD, TURNED THE PART WHERE IT WAS NIPPED TO THE ALTAR,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He pressed it against the wall, to drain out the blood.');"><sup>21</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
From the laws of the commandment is, for example, that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Zevachim 64b), "How does the priest grab the fowl sin-offering at the time of melikah? He grabs the fowl's two legs between two of his fingers and its two wings between two of his fingers, and he stretches its neck upon the width of two of his fingers and does melikah. And this is from the hardest services in the Temple." But if he alters and grabs any place it is [still] fit. And any place on the altar is fit for melikah (Zevachim 63a). We can say that the explanation of this is also to quicken the matter of the poor person - and hence, it has no specific place. And the rest of its details are elucidated in Zevachim (see Mishneh Torah, Laws of Sacrificial Procedure 6).
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