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Tosefta for Chullin 1:4

הַשּׁוֹחֵט מִן הַצְּדָדִין שְׁחִיטָתוֹ כְשֵׁרָה. הַמּוֹלֵק מִן הַצְּדָדִין, מְלִיקָתוֹ פְסוּלָה. הַשּׁוֹחֵט מִן הָעֹרֶף, שְׁחִיטָתוֹ פְסוּלָה. הַמּוֹלֵק מִן הָעֹרֶף, מְלִיקָתוֹ כְשֵׁרָה. הַשּׁוֹחֵט מִן הַצַּוָּאר, שְׁחִיטָתוֹ כְשֵׁרָה. הַמּוֹלֵק מִן הַצַּוָּאר, מְלִיקָתוֹ פְסוּלָה, שֶׁכָּל הָעֹרֶף כָּשֵׁר לִמְלִיקָה, וְכָל הַצַּוָּאר כָּשֵׁר לִשְׁחִיטָה. נִמְצָא, כָּשֵׁר בִּשְׁחִיטָה, פָּסוּל בִּמְלִיקָה. כָּשֵׁר בִּמְלִיקָה, פָּסוּל בִּשְׁחִיטָה:

An animal which was slaughtered by being cut at either side of the throat is Cashér, but if the neck of a bird brought as a sacrifice was wrung off sideways, it is thereby rendered an unfit sacrifice. If an animal was cut from the neck downwards, it becomes unlawful for use, but a bird whose neck was thus wrung is a valid sacrifice. An animal which was cut below the throat is Cashér, but the wringing off of birds’ heads from below the throat render them unfit sacrifices, because the whole region of the neck is appropriate for the wringing off of the head [of birds], and the whole region of the throat for slaughtering [animals], therefore whatever [in respect to cutting] renders an animal Cashér, must render a bird thus treated an unfit sacrifice, and the same in the reverse case.

Tosefta Chullin

One who slaughters from above, his slaughtering is valid. From below or from the sides [of the throat], his slaughtering is invalid (cf. Hul. 1:4, validating the latter). And from the nape of the neck is valid for melikah (pinching off the neck of a sacrificial bird offering). One who performs melikah from above, his melikah is valid. From below or from the sides, his melikah is invalid. Slaughtering [is performed] with a utensil, and melikah with the hand, and consequently it is said (Hul. 1:4), "[What is] valid for slaughter is invalid for melikah, [and what is] valid for melikah is invalid for slaughter." [Moreover,] the slaughter of a fowl inside [the Temple (see Zev. 85a:3)] is invalid, and the melikah is valid, [while] the melikah of a fowl outside [the Temple] is invalid and the slaughter is valid, and consequently it is said, "A valid location for slaughter is invalid for melikah, and a valid location for melikah is invalid for slaughter."
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